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ARGUMENT TO 



ERRORS OF THOUGHT 



-IN- 



SCIENCE, RELIGION AND SOCIAL 

LIFE 



— AND— 

THEIR EVIL INFLUENCES FROM PRE-ALPHABETIC AGES 
TO THE PRESENT DAY 

-WITH— 

PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR 
AND THE DANGERS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION 

By ST. GEORGE 



FOR SALE BY 

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY 

PUBUSHERS 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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ARGUMENT TO ERRORS OF THOUGHT 
By St. George. 

In view of the fact that several volumes w^ill be required to 
examine the career of Erring Thought in past and present civil- 
izations, it may not be amiss to preface the subject with a brief 
argument in order to indicate its drift and importance. 

This introductory sketch and the following volumes about 
to be published are written in the hope of elucidating the fact 
that many great evils in civilized life arise in errors of thought — 
in faulty and superficial ways of judging the causes of existing 
conditions and of reasoning from cause to consequence. The 
faulty work of the mind, and especially of the thinking faculties, 
develops itself into great popular delusions, which destroy social 
peace and welfare. 

Connected with this elucidation is the attempt to prove that 
the evils so arising cannot be averted save by correcting the erring 
ways of thinking into which modern methods of instruction lead 
the public mind. If errors of thought are at the root of growing 
evils, this root should be laid bare in order to make possible the 
eradication of the evil. If modern education disseminates errors 
of thought which promote the growth of evil in civilized life, or 
even if it only fails to prepare the public mind properly for the 
work of civilization, should its errors and shortcomings not be 
corrected? 

' The errors of thought which deserve particular attention at 
the present time are those which are fostered in educational in- 
stitutions, and which find their way into legislation and admin- 
istration of social and national affairs. 

Intellectual development controls social development. The 
intellect is the superstructure of natural intelligence, and a pro- 
duct of that consciousness which can be vested in language. 
There is much in human consciousness, which cannot be so vest- 
ed but which nevertheless plays an important part in civilized 
life. The human knowing powers are of a twofold kind, inas- 
much as language divides elementary consciousness or natural 
intelligence into two parts, leaving one part out of consideration 
as unwritten consciousness, and converting the balance into 



what is known as knowledge. That part which is known as 
knowledge constitutes the intellect, and but little of its work 
deserves the name of truth. Knowledge and truth are very dif- 
ferent things. The knowledge which is true is so only of facts 
in the way of thinking, but the facts of thinking differ very wide- 
ly from the facts of living. Knowledge of what is not life is 
abundant, and true in a way; it is relatively true, but relative 
truth is a superficial kind of truth, and differs from Truth as a 
stuffed animal differs from a living one. Knowledge of life at 
the present stage of intellectual development is one-sided and de- 
lusive; it is little more than a matter of opinion, such as the 
Thinking Ego produces by guessing at the active causes of hu- 
man existence. The intellectual powers which control civiliza- 
tion may be fairly described as an incoherent, non-organic mass 
of opinions. 

The opinions which rule civilization are not often rationally 
conceived. They originate largely in misconceptions of the causes 
which sustain or disturb the development of civilization. Faulty 
ways of thinking, learnedly established by systems of so-called 
logic and rhetoric, convert not only faulty conceptions of Fact 
into persistent errors of judgment, but they mislead the best in- 
tentions of the mind, to substitute hollow theories or opinions 
for needed knowledge of Fact, for that thorough knowledge of 
the causes active in nature and human nature which generate 
life and sustain its healthful development in individual and na- 
tion. 

The causes which sustain or disturb the healthful growth of 
civilization may be properly called Fact, for the sake of brevity. 
Fact, so conceived, comprizes a multiplicity of causes which 
should be known in all their actions, reactions and counterac- 
tions, in order to make the judgment of the thinking mind with 
regard to Right and Wrong something better than a mere matter 
of opinion. To know this or that feature or phase in the multi- 
plicity, ramification and entanglement of causes is not knowing 
Fact thoroughly. 

To know Fact thoroughly, the thinking faculties must have 
a well defined footing" in the consciousness which accompanies 
the powers of life in their organic procedures — in development 
and evolution, in envelopment and involution — and this footing 
is properly called the human understanding. It is this under- 
standing which needs particular attention on the part of the edu- 
cators who presume to prepare the human mind for the work of 
civilization. The modern system of education slights and even 
ignores the powers of the human understanding, and as a con- 
sequence, produces a kind of intellectuality which is rich in opin- 

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ion but poor in thorough knowledge of life, of its origin, its mo- 
tivity, its powers to build up or destroy civilization. 

A clear understanding of the principles of procedure which 
generate the powers of life and control the forces of death in the 
process of nature is primarily required in order to judge any act 
of nature or of human nature as it is in itself and in its bearings 
upon life and death — upon fitness of survival. Without. 
a thorough understanding of the active principles in natural 
causation, the thinking mind cannot proceed surefootedly to 
reason from cause to consequence; it cannot deal rationally with 
the Gist of Fact and the ever changeful problems of civilized life; 
it can only guess at the workings of natural causation; it can 
only form superficial, fragmentary and uncertain judgments, us- 
ually called opinions; and by the light of these it can only ex- 
periment in the affairs of civilization. 

A one-sided and fragmentary knowledge of causation, such 
as can be obtained in the conventional channels of enlighten- 
ment, does not rationallv develop the natural understanding of 
Fact. 

The development of a thorough knowledge of Fact in the 
thinking mind may appear to be a difificult task to accomplish, 
but the apparent difficulties are not insurmountable. To make 
the natural causes, active in nature and human nature, thorough- 
ly known, is only a matter of providing the natural knowing 
powers of mind with two requirements, first, with efficient 
means to the end of developing the human understanding, and 
secondly, with the ability of using these means efficiently in 
both sensible and reasonable ways. The providing of these 
means and the ability to use them is an educational requirement 
in all great civilizations. Our intellectual ancestry, even in pre- 
alphabetic times, has provided these means and also the formulas 
for their proper use, and later ages have embodied both in the so- 
called sacred or testamentary writings. Unfortunately, the intellec- 
tual achievements of former generations are not now intelligible to 
us; they cannot be rendered into modern language by the ways 
and means so far employed in attempted translation and elucida- 
tion. 

Modern systems of education employ no adequate means 
to develop the power of the human understanding. Modern 
science deals only with the powers of perception, and modern 
theology only with the misconceptions of original causes or of 
sacred writ. Perceptions and conceptions are faculties which 
take an indirect hold of Fact, and their work differs from that 
of the understanding, which has a direct or immediately conscious- 
connection with the causes active in nature and life. The under- 
standing furnishes immediate knowledge of nature and natural 

in 



causation, while the faculties of perception and conception fur- 
nish only auxiliary means of knowing, as the etymology of the 
words indicates. Antiquity clearly distinguished the difference, 
and evolved language accordingly. Modern learning overlooks 
this difference and defines the words derived from antiquity in 
other than their original meanings. 

Philology has been at fault; it has persistently misconceived 
the natural connection between language and the various factors 
in human consciousness and self-consciousness, and it has mis- 
represented the laws of language in antiquity recognized and es- 
tablished. 

Modern philology is an 'ology, and like all 'ologies, it fails 
to consciously connect the thinking faculties with the living 
powers, or our thought-and word-knowledge with our living con- 
sciousness of causes, active in nature and human nature. Modern 
philology lacks all understanding of the connection between lan- 
guage and the causes of life, and the human consciousness of these 
causes. The living consciousness of natural causes is a funda- 
mental equipment of the human mind; it is the raw material of 
all knowledge which, by educational training of thinking and 
speaking, should be properly elaborated into explicit knowledge 
of Fact, — of natural causation and its principles of procedure. If 
this raw material of knowledge is not so elaborated, then the 
effect which education produces in the mind is not what it ought 
to be; it is not productive of the knowledge needed to make social 
life a success in extended civilization. Intellectuality may be its 
product, biit it is a type of intellectuality which has no footing 
in the consciousness of facts which are acts of nature — no un- 
derstanding of natural causation. 

Knowledge of natural causes is a first requirement of the 
mind which claims Free-agency powess and the ability and right 
to control the affairs of social life. 

It seems as if sufficient knowledge of natural causes was 
lacking in all branches of learning, save those which concern the 
bread and butter sciences, for these do not require any knowledge 
of the inner activity of our nature; they deal only with the outer 
interaction of things — with phaenomena and conditions, regard- 
less of the invisible causes which produce them. 

Our great industrial advancement during the last hundred 
years has made Christian civilizations the predominant powers 
on earth. Our industrial advance is due to special sense-develop- 
ment, but not to the proper development of our intrinsic know- 
ing powers, nor to proper character-evolution. Sense provides 
the ample means which we have, but civilized character is re- 
quired to make right and reasonable use of the means provided by 

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sense. This character should be evolved by educational methods. 
No efficient effort in the way of character-elevation is being- 
made in modern life. 

Intellectuality as .a sense-developer has done great work; as 
a character-evolver it is still medieval in all its branches; in fact, 
it is the product of an irrational, alphabetical over-development 
of those thinking faculties which ignore or misrepresent the living 
powers. 

Irrational opinions, by education disseminated and by legis- 
lation formed into standards of right, are assuming control of 
social and political affairs throughout Christian civilization, but 
especially in these United States. 

All opinions ever advanced regarding education, legislation, 
finance, tariff, trusts, taxation, etc., are as fau/lty as are the opin- 
ions with regard to religious faith; all are unduly diverse, con- 
flicting and even contradictory, because they are formed with- 
out thorough knowledge of fundamental facts, and without re- 
gard to the inner workings of those natural causes which evolve 
the powers of life in general and the mental power of human life 
in particular, and which must be known to the Free-agency mind 
so that it may be able to distinguish that which supports the 
order of life from that which disturbs it — Right from Wrong-, 
Good from Evil, etc. "'? 

The highest judges in the land differ in their opinions of 
Right or Wrong with regard to matters of the greatest impor- 
tance to civilization. They do so because their natural under- 
standing of causes has not been fully and fairly developed. Their 
natural powers of discernment have not been evolved; they hiake 
arbitrary distinctions in their way of reasoning; they reason in 
accordance with ready-made ideas and prejudices. They make 
distinctions in the way of thinking which are not differences in 
Fact; they pronounce one Trust unlawful and they consider an- 
other Trust, formed in the same way and operating in accor- 
dance with the same methods, thoroughly lawful. They intro- 
duce their contradictory opinions of good and evil into their de- 
cisions, and they claim to base these decisions upon reason, al- 
though their reasoning is only an arbitrary procedure in the 
process of thought, which differs widely from the principles of 
procedure which sustain the order of life. If the supreme judg- 
ing power in a nation can so gravely err, what can be expected 
from the average mind which presumably rules the policy of the 
nation by its votes. 

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To know the causes active in nature and human life is a very 
different thing from knowing the ideas by which modern learn- 
ing attempts to represent these causes. The ideal picture is a 
very different thing from the active fact which it aims to repre- 
sent. It is only a knowledge of superficial aspects of Fact, which 
differs from the fact as a photograph differs from the thing pho- 
tographed. The aspect may furnish an outer view of Fact, but it 
does not bring into the light of consciousness the natural causes 
active within existing things. 

The natural knowing powers of the human mind stand 
immediately connected with the powers of life; they have their 
root in the very Gist of natural causation, and they have also a 
branch-development which is inseparably connected with that 
root. In all this, the natural knowing powers differ from the 
learnedly developed thinking faculties and powers, and hence the 
capacities of the human mind differ from and transcend those 
of modern learning. Modern learning is yet in its swaddling 
clothes as compared with the Great Learning of pre-Tartaric 
China and that recorded in the pre-alphabetic vestiges of art. 

Our civilizations have passed through long eras of intellectual 
retrogression, the nadir of which we have but just passed. Dae- 
monized minds, and not humane intellects, have ruled in civiliza- 
tion during historic ages, and made the earth a graveyard of 
ruined and slaughtered nations. Unfeeling and perverted intel- 
lectuality has been the curse of all historic civilizations. Erring, 
ill-disciplined, characterless Thought has always pushed Living 
Reason from the throne of mind and made arbitrary force the 
ruling power in civilizations. From the dawn of history to the 
present times have the powers of thought and language been sub- 
jected to the character-perverting influence of faulty systems of 
alphabetical education and instruction, and as a result continuous 
warfare and internecine strife have been the destroyers of 
nations. 

The false lights of consciousness which fragmentary alpha- 
betical training always develops in the thinking and talking in- 
tellectuals, have never failed in destroying the virtues of the civ- 
ilizing instinct, pre-alphabetically evolved in the human mind. 

Language, the original civilizer of mankind, has always be- 
come a daemonizing power in the control of thinking egotists 
whom alphabetical learning has ever produced and still pro- 
duces. 

The Thinking Ego. alphabetically enlightened, has always 
tortured and tyrannized over the living and feeling self, and 
thereby undermined and destroyed the order of life — the health 
and well-being in individual and nation. 

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We have but just emerged from the darkest of intellectu- 
ally benighted ages — the so-called Middle Ages of the Chris- 
tian cult. Our intellectual ancestry of medieval times were vis- 
ionary and daemonized bigots who practiced, suffered or coun- 
tenanced all sorts of wrongs against the rights of man. We may 
think that we are now proceeding surefootedly in the way of 
peace and prosperity; but if we so think we may err. The causes 
which have many times ruined great and prosperous civiliza- 
tions are still active among us. With these causes we must make 
ourselves familiar, by going beyond the reach of modern learn- 
ing, for modern learning ignores them. 

Modern learning of all kinds has the one great defect that it 
detaches the human thinking powers from the living powers and 
thereby makes thought a self-sufficient factor of mind and a 
manufacturer of theories and opinions. Modern learning does 
marvelous work in the workshop of thought, but it does not 
know the natural ways and means by which the Thinking Ego 
can enter the workshop of nature to ascertain the workings of 
the causes active within. 

The intellectualized mind cannot rationally deal wjith the 
requirements of civilized life if it does not understand the work- 
ings of the causes active in the process of nature and especially 
the causes of human development and evolution. It is necessary 
to make these causes fully and fairly known as they are in them- 
selves, and not merely as they may be represented by this or 
that class of thinkers or alleged truth-tellers. 

Education, which develops no truer lights of consciousness in 
the public mind than are either the relative truths of scientific 
empirics or the conflicting God-ideas of theologians, does not 
serve our great and growing civilization well; it leads the mind to 
form opinions without the fundamentally necessary knowledge 
of Fact. ■ The opinions so formed are liable to work up what an- 
tiquity knew as a "war of words" for opinion's sake — an undue 
conflict of learnedly established opinions which cannot be har- 
monized among themselves, nor be made to minister effectually 
to the requirements of civilized life. The conflict of such opin- 
ions has usually been destructive to social order and peace. 

Learning in all its branches, save those of the bread and but- 
ter sciences, is only a product of opinions, irrationally conceived 
and systematically fixed in definitions of words which misrepre- 
sent the changeful workings of natural causation in all develop- 
ment and evolution. The process of existence and the eternal 

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chain of causation are unknown to all modern thinkers; they are 
virtually ignored, if not denied, by modern learning, which sub- 
stitutes its "ologies" for knowledge of Fact. Abstract learning 
of all kinds is only a conglomerate of opinions, irrationally con- 
ceived and propagated in ways of hollow, alphabetical talk with- 
out due knowledge of fundamental facts. There is altogether too 
much theoretical talk and too little practical understanding in 
the various schools of thought established by modern learning. 
The teachings in school and church have an unhappy influ- 
ence upon the public mind; they lead the thinking faculties away 
from the natural knowing powers, and they instil ready-made 
ideas into the mind, instead of evolving the powers of discern- 
ment in naturally logical ways. Ready-made ideas regarding 
the right or wrong, the good or evil in social life, are dangerous 
tools of the mind. They are means to the end of pre-judging 
Fact, and generally designed for some special purpose. Having 
served their purpose, they do not pass out of existence, but 
metamorphose into persistent prejudices. Scattering them- 
selves over the earth like firebrands, they set ablaze those tenden- 
cies to popular delusion which have but too often swept civili- 
zations off the face of the earth. 

Modern learning leads the thinking faculties of the public 
mind into superficial channels. It talks about phaenomena and 
conditions, but it utterly fails to elucidate the causes of phae- 
nomena and conditions. Knowledge of phaenomena and condi- 
tions is not knowledge of Fact. 

The theologian's talk about primary causes and the scien- 
tist's talk about secondary causes is hollow, because it ignores 
natural causes, the causes of life, of development and of evolu- 
tion. It only represents one-sided and fragmentary aspects of 
natural causes and ideal pictures of these aspects. This kind of 
knowledge antiquity described as "shell-knowledge." 

All scientific and theological talk about social conditions is 
equally hollow if it does not fully and fairly elucidate the causes 
which produce these conditions, and no learned thinker has ever 
elucidated these causes in modern life. 

To know conditions as science and theology represent them 
to the public mind, is not knowing them as they should be known. 
That which produces conditions of well-being and of suffering 
in civiljzed life should be made fully and fairly known through 
the channels of education, for only if the causes of well-being and 
suffering are known can the thinking mind employ proper means 
in efficient ways to promote the healthful growth of civilization. 

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The Gods have evolved free-agency powers out of the ele- 
mentary knowing and doing powers of life. The free-agent se- 
lects the soil and plants his root of character. School and Church 
water the growing plant; so antiq.uity held. 

The assertion that the causes of human life and develop- 
ment are unknowable cannot be satisfactory to any free-agent or 
to any reasonable man. If these causes are unknowable, all 
knowledge of life, of right and wrong, of good and evil, is 
necessarily a matter of opinion, formed without sufficient 
knowledge of Fact, of doubtful value and probably not tru!ly 
representative of the requirements of life. Why should any 
mail willingly subject himself to control of any opinionated 
mind — of any mind that does not understand the workings of 
natural cause and consequence? 

All talk of truth is hollow if it ignores the organizing powers 
active in nature and civilization, and productive of life in general 
and of human intelligence and intellectuality in particular. 

Hollow talk 
in school and church, in college, university and public life is the 
danger of the hour. It converts the virtues of natural intelligence 
into sham intellectuality, and the fulness of natural knowing pow- 
ers into the superficiality and hoUowness of opinions. The con- 
version of irrational opinions into laws is fatal error; it is the car- 
dinal sin of superficial and perverted intellectuality. 

Hollow talk in school separates the thinking consciousness 
from the living consciousness; it makes the faculties of thought 
self-sufficient and produces much hollow word-knowledge, all 
of which misleads the judging and reasoning powers of the mind. 
Hollow talk in church substitutes diverse and contradictory 
God and Devil ideas for the living God-consciousness in the 
human mind; it disseminates absentee God-ideas, which are al- 
leged to represent some unknowable divinity, distant from our 
world of life. Our living God-consciousness is the elementary 
consciousness of the organizing powers of life, mind and thought, 
active in the process of existence, and this consciousness has vir- 
tues as a humanizing power which the conflicting God-ideas and 
current theories of heaven and hell, now circulating as theologi- 
cally established truths, do not usually sustain. 

Hollow talk in theological colleges misrepresents the testa- 
mentary records of human experience which depict the causes 
of human welfare, as well as those of national degeneracy and 
destruction. 

Hollow talk about sin makes men lose respect for religious 
leadership, if not also for right and reason. 

Hollow talk about morality fills the hospitals. 

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Hollow talk of virtue and justice makes that appear right 
which, in fact, is not right, and that wrong which is not wrong; 
it perverts the working order of the mind, substituting imag- 
inary reasons for the living consciousness of natural causes, and 
biased opinions for knowledge of Fact, in ways which make all 
thinking minds more or less irrational; thus hollow talk spreads 
popular delusions. 

Language is the gift divine which elevates human nature 
above that of the animal, and makes civilization possible. Hol- 
low talk is an abuse of human language and a source of evil in 
civilized life. 

Hollow is all talk of good and evil which ignores or mis- 
represents the active causes productive of conditions of well-be- 
ing and suffering. Active causes are the Gist of Fact; conditions 
and all other appearances are only that which can be said in con- 
nection with causes in statements of Fact. 

Hollow is all talk of peace and salvation when the existing 
conditions and the causes which produce them make for war and 
damnation. The causes, making for either war or peace, must 
be known and properly dealt with before peace and salvation can 
be secured. 

Hollow talk of dishonesty among the higher-ups never 
reaches the seat of evil; it only makes the lowly think that dis- 
honesty is the stairway to prosperity, and it generates a brood of 
scheming parasites in civilization. 

Hollow talk of predatory wealth demoralized the masses, en- 
genders class hatred and spreads the delusion that wealth is 
necessarily a public enemy when, as a matter of fact, the men 
of great business ability and wealth are usually the most active 
factors in national prosperity, and most sincerely interested in 
public welfare. 

Hollow is all talk which seeks to inspire the public mind 
with any ready-made opinions, pro or con, regarding this or that 
factor in civilization. 

Hollow talk substitutes general and particular visions, rela- 
tively and partially true statements of Fact, for gisty judgments. 

Relative truths are fixed conceptions of one-sided aspects of 
Fact, true in a way to the point of view, as opinions generally are, 
but false to the Gist of Fact. Relative truths regarding the 
causes of life and human welfare are tainted truths. 

Tainted truths, by hollow talk disseminated, are more pow- 
erful foes to the democratic institutions of this country than is 



tainted money. Tainted money may unduly diminish the pros- 
perity of some factors in a democratic commonwealth, but 
tainted truths delude the knowing power in the public mind and 
pervert the character required to make self-government a suc- 
cess. Democratic institutions of a very extended character, as 
are ours, cannot maintain themselves long if honest truth and 
honest money are not the circulating mediums in public life. 
The care of one hundred millions of people embodied in one social 
organization, with all the ramifications and entanglements of di- 
verse and conflicting interests, needs thoroughly rational leader- 
ship, which the present opinionated talent cannot furnish; in fact, 
it needs fully enlightened high-character genius, which only an 
organization devoted solely to the study of national welfare can 
evolve, if it goes away from and beyond all systems of modern 
learning and all conventional ways of manufacturing opinions 
and of dealing in ready-made ideas. 

Hollow talk of circulation-seeking journalism points to un- 
desirable conditions, the origin of which is not thoroughly under- 
stood, and calls for reforms which only substitute a new error 
for an old one. The lazy mind, or the mind busy with its own 
special affairs, is usually ready to accept ready-made opinions as 
full and fair statements of Fact, and to be guided and controlled 
by these opinions, especially when they promise reform and bet- 
terment of conditions. The acceptance of ready-made opinions 
makes dupes of many honest-minded and otherwise reasonable 
people, and starts the ever fatal reform-mania, which attempts to 
do by legislation the work which education has failed to do; that 
is, to elevate the character of the people in general and of their 
representatives and leaders more especially. 

Short-sighted journalism so misleads many voters that they 
labor for the undoing of their own welfare, not only for the un- 
doing of their own individual liberty and prosperity, but also to 
the end of making this country dependent on a foreign credit- 
system, and subject to international programmers. 

The voters of this republic, inspired by moralizing talk and 
by promise of better conditions, labor to fetter the money evils 
legislatively, with the result of "forging fetters their own feet 
to fit", as did the populace in the colonies of ancient Greece. 

The reform-crazed American voter now calls for more spe- 
cial legislation, which does not increase his chances of peace and 
plenty, but which deprives him of his civic rights and liberties, 
and places more and more power into the hands of politicians 
and public servants, and more burdens on his own life. He vir- 
tually calls for an extension of the recently established bureau- 
cratic system; he calls for administrative interference in local af- 

XI 



fairs by agents of the central government, which cannot keep it- 
self thoroughly informed about local requirements in this vast 
country; he calls for more extravagances in national administra- 
tion; he calls for tariff-revision which would result in transfer-' 
ring our national cash-resources to foreign money-powers, and 
which would put America's laboring classes into direct competi- 
tion with cheap foreign labor; he calls for reciprocity with for- 
eign countries with which he cannot compete: — coun- 
tries which do not bear the heavy burden of our waste- 
ful government and which are not subject to our ex- 
traordinary living expenses. He calls for all sorts of 
administrative measures which would necessitate more 
national bond-issues and higher taxation, and which would place 
greater burdens on the wealth-producing classes. He calls for 
more battleships, not needed for coast defense nor for the pro- 
tection of commerce in the absence of a merchant navy. He 
glories in the acquisition of foreign domains, populated by races 
which cannot assimilate with ours and which are not susceptible 
to self-government. He takes delight in seeing the aggressive 
policy of our central government and its interference in foreign 
affairs, its proposed coalitions with monarchical governments, 
better organized than our own to control international policy, but 
playing a dangerous international ga'me. He submits to the 
usurpation of power by the public servants who undertake to 
manage his national affairs, and who have usually not enough 
knovvledge and experience to manage properly the affairs of a 
single county, but who are filled with ambition, not only to rule 
with an iron hand the many millions of people in these United 
States, but to play an arrogant and dominant part among the 
great civilizations of the earth. He even endorses the expensive 
foreign policy of his national representatives, and he accepts 
without question the inspirations of international programmers, 
handed to him as news in the daily press. 

The average American voter, by news items inspired, sees 
all sorts of possibilities of either coming greatness or dawning 
dangers, which are impossibilities in fact, but he overlooks the 
most important of all national dangers, the undoing of his 
national independence of foreign money-systems, and he ignores 
another quite important factor in the extension of our republican 
institutions, viz., the fact that party-regime without a truly patri- 
otic, characterful, centralizing middle-power can never be a last- 
ing success in an extended and rapidly growing civilization, for 
it works "to maintain itself and its own one-sided interest at the ex- 
pense of the commonwealth. 



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Party-regime 
such as ours, may serve early stages of national development 
well, and it did so serve the early stages in the grow^th of this re- 
public, but in great and extended stages of national develop- 
ment party-regime v^ithout some national centralizing powder 
must ever prove a failure. It proceeds by going into side-issues, 
and it cannot avoid becoming so extravagantly one-sided in opin- 
ions and in legislative and administrative measures as to divide 
the house against itself if opinions are the only lights which de- 
termine civic rights. 

Aggressive opinions and extravagant party-measures sow 
the seeds of bitterness and hatefulness among social constituents.- 
The hollow talk of party-workers lionizes its own supporters and 
exerts itself to assassinate the reputations of its opponents. It 
exalts the opinion-made and usually pernicious systems which 
corrupt the men who operate under them, and it condemns the 
corrupted victims of system only if they are working for the op- 
position party. 

Hollow talk, acting in the best interests of party ,but careless 
of the true interests of commonwealth, makes continuous mud- 
throwing part of its endeavor. It throws mud, not only at po- 
litical candidates, but at the occupants of public office in such 
a way as to deter many able and characterful men of affairs from 
accepting public service; it lionizes the flunkies of party-regime 
and of foreign program; it builds up advertised reputations for 
men active in party interests, and it helps to place incompetent 
members of the party machinery in control of those public and 
national affairs to which only truly patriotic men of business and 
financial ability can properly attend. 

The people of these United States have not yet come to rea- 
lize the great difference between their own national system of fi- 
nance and the international credit-system. If this difference was 
understood in its bearings upon national welfare and peaceful se- 
curity it is safe to say that public opinion would change its atti- 
tude regarding many problems now under congressional con- 
sideration, such as those of trusts, tariff, taxation, expenditures 
for political purposes, Panama Canal-building and foreign policy 
in general. 

Hollow talk, active in the opinion-making business, so stuffs 
the public mind with ready-made ideas that but few minds can 
retain their natural ability to think for themselves in natural 
ways. 

The masses cannot be expected to give much thought to na- 
tional household affairs and to international relationships; most 
individuals usually have all they can do to think about their own 
affairs. Hence a great part of the public is placed under the 

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necessity of accepting the advice and direction of professional 
talkers and political leaders, who usually offer opinions in the 
charming garb of rhetoric as substitutes for full and fair state- 
ments of gisty judgments of Fact. 

The mass of the voters is easily misled by the word- 
knowledge of party leaders to accept this or that biased party- 
regime or unsavory policy. Lacking the qualities of foresight 
which make for great and lasting success, the misled masses, who 
have a numerical preponderance of votes, can easily be turned to 
party account, as the misleaders of public opinion may desire. 

Our political party-pullers now advocate all sorts of meas- 
ures and policy which the early leaders of this republic consid- 
ered detrimental to public welfare. 

Hollow talk is the fighting machinery of party agitators and 
seekers after personal advancement, to whom patriotism is a 
secondary consideration. The gallery-playing politician, who 
poses as a diplomat and seeks world-wide fame and approval, 
cannot well be a patriot. The Kleons who seek to pre- 
judice public opinion in one way or another, seem to be very 
numerous in America's political life, but no Demosthenes, able 
to defend and advance the interests of commonwealth, makes 
himself heard. 

Democratic institutions need more fully ienlig^tened and 
characterful voters than do monarchial governments. When peo- 
ple undertake to elect their highest representatives by vote and 
to direct the policy of the nation by platform, they should have 
a thorough understanding of the inner and outer requirements 
to national welfare, and they should themselves be able to de- 
termine upon doing the right thing at the right time; in fact, 
under the often critical conditions of international relationship, 
the people who undertake to rule themselves should have diplo- 
matic genius. The voters under monarchial governments do not 
need such genius. Monarchies have a permanently established, 
aristocratic centre, which devotes its life to diplomatic thinking 
for national welfare, presumably. This aristocratic centre en- 
ters as an adjudicative head between the hasty progressives on 
the one hand and the tardy conservatives on the other hand. When 
this adjudicative head is wanting, party strife is liable to fly from 
one extreme to anoth'er, and to accomplish nothing in the way 
of healthful development, unless the voters are sufficiently en- 
lightened and able to determine upon and direct the internal and 
external policy of the country. In small republics, where great 
diplomatic ability is not needed, the people have often given 

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proof of ability to manage at least their national household af- 
fairs and internal policy, btit in a great and growing civilization 
of a hundred millions, like our own, proportionately more en- 
lightenment and characterful free-agency power are needed; not 
only to direct the internal policy, but to cope with external con- 
ditions and requirements. The United States, by reason of their 
great industrial development, geographical position, etc., etc., 
enter as a very important factor into all the international rela- 
tionships of the world, and they are liable to be drawn into un- 
desirable entanglements by foreign diplomats, ambitious to ob- 
tain world-control, and by native politicians, who would sacri- 
fice the best interests of the country in order to figure personally 
in the international game. The bearings of these possibilities, 
the voter, who undertakes to determine national policy, should 
understand and should be able to deal with, as the international 
program-work proceeds. 

Republican self-government needs voters who will not allow 
themselves to be misled by ready-made opinions placed before 
them, who will not engage in a war of words for opinion's sake, but 
who can of their own knowledge distinguish truth from error and 
right from wrong, and who will devote their energies to the pre- 
servation of national liberty. 

Self-government can only succeed if controlled by fully en- 
lightened and characterful free-agency powers, whose self-con- 
sciousness and self-respect provide a living criterion of certitude, 
by which the merits and demerits of opinions may be judged. 

The opinionated mind thinks without a living criterion of 
certitude, for it thinks without understanding of natural causa- 
tion in which this criterion has its root. It hops from one ready- 
made idea to another about its workshop of thought, without 
ability of forming conclusions true to the movements of the 
powers which control life and civilization. 

Opinions fly from one extreme to the other, always creating 
undue disturbance by praising or condemning this or that factor 
in civilization. Opinions are always one-sided and usually 
tending toward extravagances; on the one hand they condemn 
labor unions; on the other hand they condemn combinations of 
capital. Now they favor low tariff, now high tariff; now they 
advocate this, now that policy, but they always lack the certainty 
and stabilit}^ which promote national growth. 

Antiquity has often recognized the need of a reliable criterion 
of certitude in determinations of individual and national conduct. 
Modern Catholicity has apparently attempted to revive the old- 
time recognition of this need in launching the dogma of Papal 
Infallibility ex cathedra; but its definition of ex cathedra and the 

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accompanying dogma of the Immaculate Conception, presumably 
representative of an errorless mother of human knowing and 
thinking powers, has so far fallen short of that which the world 
could accept as standards of Light and Right that the Papal cri- 
terion of certitude has not found very ^extended endorsement in 
Christian civilization. If the Gist of creative causation is not fully 
and fairly known, no thinking mind can claim full free-agency 
powers nor the possession of a living criterion of certitude, and 
hence neither the knowledge of right or wrong in human conduct 
nor ability of judging the merit or demerit in conflicting opin- 
ions. 

Facts in the way of thinking are not necessarily facts in the 
way of living. Life has requirements which the thinking faculties 
but too often ignore and which opinions can never truthfully re- 
present. He who wants to claim a better knowledge of Fact than 
opinions can furnish, and the right to guide or control human con- 
duct, must furnish the thinking world with convincing evidences 
that be has a fully and fairly enlightened understanding of the 
causes which create and sustain the order of life. As long as re- 
ligious leaders cannot furnish the public mind with these evidences, 
so long has the public mind a right to doubt the competency of 
religious leadership, for in all likelihood does it adhere to its 
old-time ways of dealing in one-sided opinions and hollow talk. 
While religious leaders stand divided among themselves by 
reason of diverse, conflicting and contradictory opinions as to 
the creative and organizing power in the process of life, and 
while they speak after the manner of other half-enlightened in- 
tellectuals, who ignore one half of the human knowing power, 
they should refrain from promising reform, salvation, peace and 
prosperity, as should all opinion-mongers. All reform-measures, 
advocated by opinionated minds, will prove causes of undue dis- 
turbance in civilized life. 

That which up to recent times has ruled our country, was 
much of a natural growth and but little of artificial system, hence 
there is much in this civilization as it should be, and therefore 
the established order is a thing not to be disturbed by visionary 
reformers. 

We have recently entered upon a new era. A certain kind 
of so-called higher intellectual development is being pushed into 
American civilization. ' It is much of a pretentious but hollow 
artifice, foreign to all knowledge of the causes of natural growth. 
It is artificial intellectualit)^ with the influence of which 
we have to deal when considering the now active causes and 

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consequences productive of social conditions. It is the opinion- 
pest, mythically known as the locust-pest, which has befallen this 
civilization as a consequence to a superficial and alphabetical de- 
velopment of intellectuality, disseminated and fostered in our high- 
er institutions of learning. The learned thinkers presume to ans- 
wer all questions with regard to unsatisfactory conditions in 
social life by their opinions, and it is for the voters of this country 
to determine how much of merit and demerit there is in these 
opinions before they accept them as gospel truth and causes of 
coming salvation. 

Will the prejudicial talk against Trust-systems not eventu- 
ally destroy the possibility of maintaining the financial indepen- 
dence of these United States? 

Will the anti-tariff agitation not eventually open the doors 
of our commonwealth so wide to products of foreign labor that 
the payments in balance of trade will diminish our cash-resources 
and plunge us further and further into bonded indebtedness, until 
we become permanent tribute-payers to foreign financial skill, 
our natural advantages notwithstanding? 

Will the agitation against the so-called predatory wealth of 
our own country not eventually force our great financiers to turn 
their interests over to foreign systems of finance, as some of our 
great railroad men are said to have been forced to do during the 
last financial calamity? 

Will this transfer of our great wealth-producing powers into 
absentee ownership not virtually deprive this country of home 
rule? 

Is the persistent agitation against some of the great indus- 
trial combinations of American capital not perhaps inspired by 
foreign programmers with a view of destroying America's finan- 
cial independence? Are the good trusts not perhaps those 
which are now directly or indirectly controlled by the interna- 
tional credit-system, and are the bad trusts not perhaps those 
whose managers will not allow themselves to be so controlled? 

Will coalition with a country, controlled by a better organized 
and more diplomatic government than our own, not eventually 
make this heretofore free country a mere province of foreign 
guiding powers? 

Is England not playing a somewhat high-handed and dan- 
gerous international game with doubtful success? Is foreign di- 
plomacy not so intricate and uncertain a game that American 
politicians will not be able to play it successfully? Foreign diplo- 
mats have undertaken to educate the American voter in many 
ways which are not in line with the possibilities of maintaining 
a democratic government. They have placed very many ready- 

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made ideas, through learned and loudly advertised authorities, 
before the American public. Many of these ideas have an omin- 
ous bearing upon the national life of these United States, and of 
the merits and demerits of these bearing's the American voter 
should be able to judge. If he lacks this ability he may endorse 
a national policy fatal to democratic institutions. 

Is not perhaps England's influence in American affairs and 
her ambitious world-policy a danger to the democratic institu- 
tions of these United States? Do the American people not now 
need a patriotic awakening to the dangers which arise in inter- 
national combinations to a country which enjoys the favorable 
position of an isolated continent? 

These and many more important questions now place them- 
selves before the minds of the American voter, and all should be 
answered, not merely by opinion, but by gisty judgments based 
on a thorough understanding of the causes which are dominantly 
and subserviently active in twentieth century civilization. Where 
is the individual thinker who can claim a comprehensive knowledge 
of these causes and a thorough understanding of their world-wide 
and invisible activit}^? These causes are, of course, knowable, and 
they are probably known in fragmentary ways, here and there, to 
some of the millions of thoughtful minds, but who can claim the 
comprehensive knowledge necessary to foresee the consequences 
of the present mental activity in distant lands among distant 
races? Our learned thinkers make the public mind acquainted 
only with existing conditions, here and there, but they ignore the 
causes which are invisibly working to change these conditions. 
Would it not be well for the leading and patriotic minds of Amer- 
ica to org'anize themselves for the study of causes which make 
civilized life a success or failure, and for the purpose of enlight- 
ening the masses as to the needs of free-agency knowing and do- 
ing powers? 

Would it not be well for the leading minds of America to 
make themselves acquainted with the fact that there are inter- 
national programmers at work in twentieth century civilization, 
and with the detailed features of these programs, if not also with 
the personality of the programmers? How many American 
voters have any idea whatever of the existence of international 
programs? How many could with any degree of certainty point 
to the programming heads whose names and ambitions never 
appear in public print, who operate unseen, even as do the pow- 
ers of life and the forces of death? Is it not dangerous to live in 
the dark as to the causes which control human life and national 
welfare? 



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Apart from the dangers arising from the want of knowledge 
of international affairs, there may be dangers brewing within 
home affairs which deserve public attention. 

As diverse and contradictory opinions of Right and Wrong, 
of Good and Evil multiply in this land, so also multiply legislative 
measures. No opinionated mind ever knows the gist of either 
Right orWrong as thoroughly as it should be known in order to 
asstime legal character. Under the influence of opinions the 
character of the law deteriorates as legislative measures multiply. 
No learnedly enlightened mind can keep track of the continuous 
multiplication of laws in these United States, so as to know with 
any degree of certainty what is considered legally right or wrong, 
here or there, now or then. Are not all courts controlled by 
opinions? Are these opinions always reasonable? Are they not 
sometimes unreasonable? Do courts never reverse their own 
judgments? Are they not controlled by thinkers who cannot 
lay claim to any living criterion of certitude, and who speak of 
right and reason as opinionated minds speak of good and evil? 

The opinion-made law is a dangerous tool of the intellect 
when it comes under diplomatic control. It leads to unjust con- 
victions, the manufacture of criminals, Dreyfus cases, judicial 
and legislative spoliation, and worse. 

The United States are rapidly becoming a law-ridden coun- 
try. Law-making is becoming a national mania; innumerable 
opinions demand legal embodiment. One-sided legal talent is 
predominant in party regime, and it is altogether too active in 
special legislation. Partizan leadership continues to play both 
ends against the middle. Partizan interests are being pushed 
ahead of the true interests of country. The one-sided opinions 
supporting party interests threaten to put an end to the govern- 
ment by the people and for the people. The undue assertion and 
power of pronounced opinions in party-government has often 
enough legislated to death the flourishing civilizations of an- 
tiquity. 

The internal peace of every great civilization is ever endan- 
gered by faulty intellectual development. 

The so-called higher education does not produce Fact-knowers 
and Truth-tellers, but it produces a knowledge of 'ologies and of 
relatively true ideas, and a great diversity of opinions regarding 
Right and Wrong. College education converts the fullness of 
natural intelligence into the hollowness of artificial intellectuality; 
it does not elucidate the all-important features of natural causation, 
but it produces 

pronounced thinkers, 
who imagine that their opinions should be accepted by all the 

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world as standards of Light and Right. When the young man 
has received a College education he imagines that he has learned 
how to think and speak properly, for all purposes of life. His 
thinking powers have been trained to meander about categorical 
pigeon-holes, and away from all connection with the conscious- 
ness which accompanies natural causation. He has learned to 
syllogize, but he has not learned to reason from cause to conse- 
quence. He may have learned all about the rules which govern 
academic rhetoric, but he has not arrived at a clear understanding 
of the fact that the procedures of language must align themselves 
to the principles of procedure in natural causation, in order to 
fully and fairly elucidate Fact and to tell the truth about nature's 
activity. Gollege-bred, pronounced thinkers who are more or less 
ignorant of Fact — of the causes which produce social conditions — 
are the curse of every growing civilization. Under the influence 
of so-called higher education, they multiply like maggots in the 
cheese and cause deterioration of the social substance; the less 
they know of the changeful requirements of a growing civilization 
the more anxious they are to convert their irrational opinions into 
the laws of the land. 

All the current opinions regarding the bearings on social 
welfare of the great factors in national life, such as tariff, taxa- 
tion, trusts, finance, morality, rehgion, science, etc., are more 
or less irrational; all are conceived without a thorough knowledge 
of the active causes productive of existing conditions. Conditions 
are known, but the causes which produced the known conditions 
are almost unknown. 

The talk of 

tariff-reform 
is, like all other reform-talk, a product of irrational opinions which 
pave the way from bad to worse with "pointed prejudices," 
leading to fatal privileges, instead of doing away with these privi- 
leges, as they pretend to do. The tariff question cannot be truly 
answered from any one point of view; it stands closely connected 
with all national household questions and also with the interna- 
tional system of finance; it connects itself with the coin-payment 
of balances in trade to foreign nations and with the great evil of 
increasing bonded indebtedness, if balances of trade go against the 
nation. The public opinion-makers do not usually present the 
tariff-question in all its bearings to the public mind. There is 
altogether too much foreign influence active in journalistic educa- 
tion and national legislation regarding our tariff-regulations. 



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The taxation system 
is still medieval and utterly unfit to serve in the advancement of 
our great commonwealth. To directly tax the toiler's tools, the 
hand to mouth home-builder, the man with a hoe, is unjust when 
we consider that money in many privileged channels of trade is 
making undue profits and causing undue national expense. Our 
system of taxation is even an outrage if we consider that it is 
enforced for the purpose of supporting a wasteful army of public 
employees, who serve no better purpose than the support of party- 
rqgime, its special legislation and extravagant mismanagement 
of national affairs. If our national household affairs were well 
regulated, we would not need an expensive partizan army of tax- 
gatherers. Under the existing system, the puny minds which 
attempt to regulate state and interstate affairs, go into pimy 
details at enormous expense. 

Public opinion, proceeding in ways antagonistic to the ex- 
isting Trusts, may eventually do great harm to civilization. The 

Trusts, . 
of all modern innovations in civilized life, are the most 
important. If properly regulated by sense and reason, instead 
of being disturbed by antagonistic, ill-conceived legislation, the 
Trust-system would probably result in far greater benefit to 
American civilization than ever did the introduction of machin- 
ery. If the Trusts were properly chartered institutions, so as to 
make part of their earnings tributary to the national treasury, the 
questions of finance, tariff, taxation, etc., could be answered satis- 
factorily to every right-minded man. 

We have still at present two kinds of trusts in these United 
States; the one kind, which is dependent upon and controlled by the 
international credit-system, and the other kind, which is still inde- 
pendent of the international credit-system and controlled by our 
own national financiers. The first kind is beyond the control of 
the American people, its voters and its government; the other 
kind is in danger of being crushed, or driven into the hands of for- 
eign financiers, with whose regime our politicians and judiciary 
dare not interfere. In the preservation, nationalization 
and chartering under proper conditions of these independent trusts 
may be found the best of available means of managing our national 
household economy, so as to secure some financial independence 
and the possibility of eventually paying off the national debt. The 
merging of the trusts, which are still independent of the interna- 
tional credit-system, could give this country an independent, 
national system of finance; it could do away with the bulk of 
administrative expenses; it could establish conditions of individual 

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welfare for industrial constituents; it could tax the beneficiaries of 
system and privilege, and thereby lessen the burden of the hand to 
mouth toilers; it could do away with the increasing evils of multi- 
plying special legislation and of maintaining an unduly expensive 
bureaucratic system. If Trust financiers had a due voice in the 
management of national affairs, the country could not be forced 
to pay tribute to foreign financiers and to submit to foreign in- 
terference in the management of its national affairs. 

It is not here asserted that the Trusts should control the 
national government, instead of the government controlling the 
Trusts. The assertion here made is that this government, being 
controlled by political parties, is not altogether a government of 
the people or by the people. Political party-pullers have other 
interests at heart than those of the nation. They may claim 
to talk for the nation with the view of influencing its voters, but 
they act for themselves, their party and the programmers. They 
are placed under the necessity of running the affairs of govern- 
ment in accordance with public opinion, which is not always 
thoroughly enlightened as to the changeful needs within and 
about national affairs in the rapid growth of modern civilization, 
and which, for want of proper enlightenment, is very easily misled 
by the hollow talk of far-sighted programmers. 

The government and constitution of the United States 
were formed to suit a very much smaller and simpler form of 
national life than that into which the changeful times have pushed 
us. The original status of American society did not require more 
than ordinary knowing and doing powers on the part of either 
the people or the government. Government by party fitted the 
requirements of early stages of national development. Party- 
government was originally a government of and for the people. 
A hundred years of national growth, however, have brought 
about great changes. Party-regime is no longer doihg good 
work; it is proceeding without due patriotism; it is being unduly 
influenced and misled by great and growing financial interests. 
It needs to be brought into pace with the times, and this can 
only be done by an extended, interstate organization of non-par- 
tizan patriots, who will not seek office, nor personal emoluments 
or vain-glory, but who will make 

cameralistics 
their special study and business. This country needs a permanent 
and competent board of advice, which will make national economy, 
in all its branches, and national relationships its special study, and 
which will devote itself to the harmonizing of individual and local 
interests — party-interests with national welfare — , and this board 
should have its representatives in every county of every state in 

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the Union, not only for the purpose of studying local requirements, 
but also for the purpose of keeping" a watchful eye on the opinion- 
making business and the local evils arising out of it. This country 
needs true lights on all social and economic subjects, and a high- 
character advisory board, which can influence public opinion 
against abuse of party-regime or ill-advised designs of program- 
mers. 

The hap-hazard selection of party talent to perform import- 
ant public functions and fill important offices does not serve this 
commonwealth to best advantage. No great business house could 
run its afifairs successfully by selecting and changing its employees 
in the hap-hazard way in which this government changes its 
functionaries. Competence is required to do great work success- 
fully. National affairs are the greatest of all work. To manage 
them properly the needed ability must be properly prepared in 
educational ways and retained regardless of party-interests. 

Modern education and business training develop special facul- 
ties of entering minutely into special pursuits, but such develop- 
ment creates much littleness of mind without any unifying power. 
Small minds aim to enter into details; they harbor small ideas and 
they push these ideas by legislation into puny absurdities, but they 
cannot deal with the great industrial and financial afifairs of this 
immense civilization; they cannot and they do not at present deal 
fairly and reasonably with the Trust-system. 

The present political system-workers have given ample evi- 
dence of their incompetence; they are progressive and aggressive 
law-and trouble-makers in puny ways; they are no doubt men of 
good intentions, but are they not by hollow talk blinded to the 
best interests of this country? Is the present progressive regime 
not proving itself retrogressive in many very important respects? 
Has this great industrial nation not rapidly lost the advantages 
which balances of trade gave it? Is it not being plunged into 
debt in times of peace? Are popular unrest and class-hatred not 
growing vmder the present party-regime? Is this country not 
losing the backbone of its prosperity; — the financial strength 
which balance of trade formerly gave it? 

Were it not for the efficient work which great financiers at 
home and abroad have done, our prosperity might even now be 
at a low ebb. 

Surely the Trust-system should be regulated and its affairs 
adjusted to national wants, but this regulation can only be ef- 
fected by the advice and influence of a competent organization 
which makes cameralistics its special study and business, and 
which stands aloof and apart from all party-regime and inde- 
pendent of party-favors to an even greater extent than does the 
highest judiciary. 

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Surely Trusts should be chartered institutions under proper 
provisions, productive of national revenues, derived .from the 
future increase of Trust earnings over their present net income. 
Great and growing civilizations need great and well regu- 
lated industrial organizations and systems, such as are the Trusts, 
but they also need cameralistic ability to bring great industrial in- 
terests in harmony with the needs of the nation. 

Home-rule is needed for industrial Trusts and not adverse 
legislation, which forces our industrial barons to seek unconditional 
alliance with the international system of finance and credit. 

The organization of industrial Trusts is a healthful step 
toward unification of diverse interests in national affairs. If Trust- 
organizations should drop into characterless financial system-work 
they would be harmful to civilization; if, however, they should 
grow about the focus of national organization, they could become 
a power making for the establishment of internal peace which no 
other now existing power on earth could bring about as easily. In 
the unification and regulation of Trusts lies the salvation of 
American civilization and its democratic institutions. 

The Trusts have come to stay. They will make their way into 
all nations. What this country needs to harmonize the Trust- 
system with national interests is an organization, which, proceed- 
ing in peaceful ways, will make the Trust-system a public bene- 
fit. 

To consider Trusts as necessarily public enemies is like con- 
sidering machinery an enemy of labor — it is foolishness. 

Legislation against the growth of the still independent Trusts 
may prove to be fatal error. 

The nations which labor to legislate Trusts out of existence 
may be moving toward industrial suicide; they probably will not 
be able to compete with those nations which foster the Trust-sys- 
tem. 

Trust-systems are strength-giving factors in national finance. 
They are even important to the maintenance of the inter::ational 
system of finance, for if they do not give their support to it or if 
they are not absorbed in it, the present international credit-system 
may not be able to maintain itself long. 

The Trust-system, if fulh^ developed in industrial nations, can 
exter.d the life of the international credit-system by stepping be- 
tween it and the people and by looking after local welfare. The 
Trust-systems could even absorb the international clearing-house 
system, improve its vvorkings infinitely, give healthful life to indi- 
vidual nations and do away once and for all with the ever fatal 
system of burdening great nations with overwhelmine indebted- 
ness to individuals. 

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Our Trusts are national organizations; they are not yet em- 
bodied in the international system of credit nor made altogether 
tributary to it. They are an American invention, and the 
American people have ever}^ right to profit by them. The unifica- 
tion and regulation of industrial Trusts can do for our civilization, 
and in fact for all the world, what the best regulated international 
credit-system ^an never do. iney can establish internal condi- 
tions of peace; they can look after the welfare of individual work- 
ers in the body of commonwealth, they can be made a humane 
organization which provides bread for the million; they u,re direct 
wealth-producers, and hence they are an organization quite dif- 
ferent from the world's financial system, which is and e-er must 
be a bloodless and unfeeling institution. 

The Trusts are the body organic of their many individual 
workers, and the welfare of the individual workers, who produce 
the wealth, is naturally part of the Trust concern. Hence the 
American working classes have every reason to foster the Trust- 
system. The Trusts can and do pay higher wages than the indi- 
vidual employer, yet they cheapen the cost of production and of 
marketing; they are effective commercial and financial machinery; 
they c<^:\ bo maae to benefit every man in civilization. To be 
jealous of the success of Trusts or to treat the Trust-system as 
necessarily a growing evil is therefore error. 

It is undoubtedly true that some Trusts have not a high 
character and that they work often like characterless party 
politicians, too much for self-interest and too little for the in- 
terests of commonwealth; but yet it is equally true that Trusts, 
which are still controlled by our own financiers, have much interest 
in national welfare, and that many of them are managed in ways 
which benefit commonwealth to greater extent than ever did indi- 
vidual effort, in industrial ways, subject as it necessarily is to nar- 
row limits and undue competition. The Trusts which lack char- 
acter and which are still under home control, can be given it in 
other ways than by hostile and destructive legislation. .They are 
children of the nation and subject to control by charter; they can 
be made to grow up in the right way. 

Character must be evolved by education ; it must be a 
growth. It can never be a product of counteractive legislation. 
Only the evil work of characterless factors in civilization can call 
for legislative repression. To legislate character into Trusts is 
quite as impossible as to legislate it into people. To devise legis- 
lative measures which force the management of Trust-affairs into 
the control of shifty party politicians is not appointing the best of 
guardians for these growing children of the nation. It is more or 



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less unreasonable to demand submission on part of great and possi- 
bly beneficial Trusts to the opinions of either domestic or foreign 
programmers, for neither class of programmers has the true inter- 
ests of this commonwealth at heart. The united industries cannot 
be expected to accept ready-made opinions of programmers as 
truths, nor can they be expected to yield gracefully to special legis- 
lation against the industrial interests of the country. The Trusts 
under home rule do not live for themselves alone; they must look 
after the welfare of the country in which they thrive. There is a 
community of interests between these independent Trusts and our 
commonwealth. This community of interests can hardly be said 
to exist to any appreciable degree among the hungry horde of 
office-hunters who usuall)' need all their wits to support them- 
selves. It is absurd to entrust partizan politicians, cowboys, 
reform-fakirs and the unsuccessful in business life, who seek the 
public crib, with work which only financiers can do. Government 
by cheap opinions is not liable to make a great nation financially 
strong- and prosperous. Cheap opinions are apt to result in very 
expensive administration of public affairs; of this fact we have 
ample evidence. Do the people of the United States not need an 
awakening to the necessity for financial rule, for the protection of 
the national treasury and of cash balances, against foreign and 
possibly adverse interference? 

THE WORLD'S CREDIT SYSTEM, 
which supports the present era of industrial prosperity, has its 
virtues and its failings. It is probably the best that can be devised 
under the present status of public mentality and morality. Cheap 
money and just and judicious extension of credit are what every 
industrial civilization, and, in fact, all the world, needs at present, 
and this the leaders of the system have resolved to furnish. Noth- 
ing better can be expected of any financial system. Cash is lim- 
ited, and therefore never can do the great work of unlimited, 
expansive and properly apportioned credit. There is much to be 
said in favor of the international credit-system, which is novv devel- 
oping itself as a world-wide power. On the other hand, the ever 
increasing extravagant bond-issues and the necessary refunding of 
national bonds place a rather heavy burden upon the laboring 
masses of the world. 

Under the present system of education and the spreading of 
notional morality and a-ctual immorality, the world's credit-sys- 
tem, by multiplying bond-holders, produces an army of wasteful 
idlers, instead of the character-aristocracy which every nation 
needs. Under the existing systems in Christian civilization it is 
doubtful if the bonded indebtedness of nations can ever be paid, 

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and the constant increase of national debts may eventually result 
in wars to enforce or prevent repudiation. 

In Gladstone's time the nations of the world owed the people 
of England alone ten thousand million dollars. This immense 
national debt, which exceeds the coin-resources of the world two 
or three times, has since greatly increased and is still increasing. 

The world's credit-system, we must admit, is well-regulated 
and efficient in serving to develop the resources of the earth; it 
is of an international and even world-wide extent, as it should 
be, but it is what antiquity knew as a "swift-footed system;" it 
gTows rapidly by lending the same money over and over. The 
money lent today is returned through the clearing-house to the 
lenders tomorrow and is lent over again. This lending of the 
same money over again to nations should be done at a very low 
rate of interest, that the credit-system may not become an undue 
tribute-levying system upon nations. The clearing-house systems 
should be chartered systems, with provision for rebate of part 
of the ever increasing profits to national governments, as should 
be all trust-systems. As the international credit-system now 
stands, it grows rapidly into a system which levies tribute upon 
all labor, and thvis growing, it cannot retain the good will of the 
world. Proceeding as it does, it never can maintain itself long, 
because it becomes a target for all diverse opinions, the world 
over. The creditor-nation comes to be looked upon as the enemy 
of the debtor-nation; it can only maintain itself on a war-foot- 
ing while the predominant fighting power is with it. 

The world's financial credit-system has probably as great in- 
ternational merits as the industrial trusts can have national 
merit. It may have even greater merits as far as humanity and 
civilization are concerned; it is of far greater extent and power; 
but it is a very much more difficult institution to manage properly 
than is the industrial trust-system in any one nation. 

International credit-systems have always had and probably 
always will have two great enemies which have their root in human 
consciousness and self-consciousness. According to sacred tra- 
ditions, these invisible enemies have succeeded in bringing 
about the de-nationalization of great races and the dispersion 
and destruction of nations operating under this credit-system. 
Counteraction against the so-called money-evils has resulted in 
great national calamities and destructive wars. The international 
credit-system has been recognized as speedily building up the 
prosperity of colonial civilizations, but this prosperity seems never 
to have been of long duration. The fathers of the international 
credit-system built well, but the sons brought trouble into the 
parental system and caused its collapse, so it is written. 

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Our intellectual ancestry has made record of one fatal error 
which the opuiionated sons of the parental credit-system usually 
commit, namely, that of causing their system in the rollings of 
time to involve all other system-work in civilization in its meshes, 
thus bringing all educational, moral, legal, political, industrial 
and even religious system-work under control of the credit-mak- 
ing power; thereby preventing people from living their own lives 
as free agents and causing brother wars in colonial life which en- 
gtilfed the mother-country and destroyed its credit-making power. 

What happened so often in past civilization as to have found 
formulated record in sacred traditions may happen again. The 
present international credit-system may also meet with reverses, 
as its predecessors have done. Its enemies are well organized 
and even now watchful and active. They will not assail its proper 
work in providing bread for the millions and establishing interna- 
tional peace; but being watchful, they anticipate the return of tra- 
ditional transgressions. 

The world-wide credit-system, centred in the English clearing- 
house, may some day be mismanaged; it may abuse its power; 
while advocating peace it may establish conditions of war; it itself 
may carry war into foreign lands; it may fall a prey to other sys- 
tems. In view of these possibilities, it behooves this American 
nation to secure its welfare at home; and not make this common- 
wealth altogether dependent upon foreign systems of finance. Of 
course the American people, as an English-speaking race, have 
every reason to support the English international credit-system, for 
it is this system which has supported and which still supports the 
advance of modern civilization. Yet, as it behooves each indi- 
vidual to look after the welfare of his family before employing his 
energies in national affairs, so it behooves each nation to look 
first after the welfare of its home affairs before expending its 
surplus energies for international benefit. 

Self-preservation in civilized life makes its just demands for 
peace and prosperity at home. 

Our remote ancestry has elucidated the many causes why 
great and growing civilizations meet with untimely reverses. It 
has elucidated these causes by indelible pictures placed in the in- 
tellectual sky, that they may never pass out of the memory of 
man. Among these causes are the reasons why no international 
credit-system can long maintain itself. Among these reasons ap- 
pears the ever recurring attempt of financiers to control the opin- 
ion-making business, the policy of education and that of legisla- 
tion, with a view of making money the ruling power in civiliza- 
tion. It is this attempt into which the present international credit- 
system is now embarking, and it is because of this attempt that 

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the active enemies of the world-wide credit-systems are watchful 
in the darkness of night. They know that the continuance of 
peace and prosperity depends upon the ability and character of 
financial leadership, and that undue ambition usually destroys 
both this ability and character. They know that the public mind 
can never be educated to worship the God Mammon; the men 
in the hovel will not worship the man in the palace. All subtle 
arguments intended to sustain the ruling power of money result 
in intellectual reactions, and eventually bring the wealth-producing 
people of the world to give battle to all ideas which debar them 
from a fair share of success in social life. The hungry wage-slave 
naturally hates the fattening master; the tax-payer hates the idle 
and extravagantly luxurious bond-holder. No financial system 
can so far extend itself as to multiply the leisured classes suffi- 
ciently to enforce control of its regime, if it fails to sustain peace 
and prosperity. The credit-making power becomes more and 
more contracted as the poor become more and more numerous. 

The world-wide credit-systems are necessarily bloodless, and 
not in accord with human feelings and sympathies. They may 
serve humanity well, in a way and for a time, but they usually 
come to be looked upon, with or without just cause, as tribute- 
levyers. Bloodless systems are the enemies of characterful organi- 
zation, developing, as they do, absolute power to govern human 
life. The international credit-system has developed power, first, to 
engulf all other systems, and then to make itself master of the 
world, to the end of destroying civilization and itself. The his- 
tory of the international credit-system is the history of dispersed 
nations. To plunge whole nations hopelessly in debt to individuals 
has never proved itself to be a success. The international credit- 
system has always rested on the shoulders of individuals, and it 
always must so rest while nations do not provide organizations for 
home finance. As it advances, so resting, it continues to provoke 
antipathies, and it needs an unfeeling dictator — a Caesar — and an 
expensive army and navy, to protect itself against enmity from 
every quarter of the civilized globe. Ruin must come to all civiliza- 
tions in which the living, organizing power is not predominantly 
active as a civilizer and character-upbuilder. The rule of bloodless 
system must end in ruin which no Messiah can avert, if character- 
ful genius does not govern the system-work. These assertions, 
here dogmatically made, are the subject of so-called sacred history. 

The English credit-system may remain a lasting benefit to 
civilization, if its managers avoid the errors of old. 

The eternal choice of Free Agency is now before them. It 
oflfers as ever a threefold opportunity, which antiquity has var- 
iously formulated and symbolized, as for instance, by the Crest of 

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Podarkes, by the Seal of Solomon and by the Sign of the Christian 
Cross. The world's financial leaders, have the choice of fighting 
under the one, of laboring under the other or of organizing under 
the third. What they will do remains to be seen. They will prob- 
ably do what they consider best for themselves and for civiliza- 
tion by the lights placed before them. 

Lights of consciousness and conscience, true to Life's 
requirements, are needed. Chief among the needed lights 
are elucidations of the difference between systematizing talent 
and organizing genius — between bloodless system-work and 
humane, characterful organizing endeavors. 

English civilization has arrived at a stage of development 
where concentration of wealth is needed to supply the require- 
ments of the teeming millions. Only great enterprises can now 
supply and distribute the daily needs of the people. Individual 
effort can no longer serve our growing- civilizations efficiently. 
Incorporate enterprise alone can do it. Should traft'ic and com- 
mercial incorporations not be made chartered institutions with 
provisions of yielding part of their growing profits to public bene- 
fit? Some genius' seems to be needed who can devise a way of 
so amending the present corporation laws, as to make great finan- 
cial, commercial, industrial and other extraordinarily profitable 
combinations necessarily a benefit to civilization, and of making 
this way acceptable to the financiers now in control of the En- 
glish-speaking civilizations. The rapid expansion of great enter- 
prises immensely increases their profits, and in as far as this ex- 
pansion is due to national growth, in so far are nations entitled 
to share in the increased profits. All great and semi-public en- 
terprises should be made chartered institutions, yielding profit 
beyond taxation to the nation which sustains them. If this were 
accomplished by peaceable ways and means, and if the representa- 
tives of chartered enterprises were given an influential voice in 
government expenditure, many of the now threatening evils due to 
concentration of domestic wealth might be obviated. The legaliz- 
ed privileges of doing business on lines more advantageous than 
those open to individual effort might be made a source of national 
welfare, instead of grinding monopolies. 

There are probably many ways and means which could 
makethe concentration of domestic wealth in channels of trade a 
public benefit, rather than a national danger. If domestic financiers 
were given a fair chance to prove their patriotism they might find 
ways and means to put an end to the reckless government expen- 
diture, to the need of national bond issues and"To other political 
evils; and they might find a way of eventually paying the national 
debts without direct and oppressive taxation. 

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Unfortunately, the American voter, who at present does not 
distinguish between domestic and foreign money powers, is in- 
cHned to look upon the growth and concentration of domestic 
wealth alone as necessarily a national danger. The constant talk of 
corruption has biased his judgment and reasoning powers. Much 
talk about a little dishonesty here and there in local systems with- 
draws the attention of the public mind from the great danger of 
the larger, the foreign and perhaps more potent of evil-working 
systems. If concentrated wealth is an enemy of civilization, then 
is not the greater concentration of the money-power in the En- 
glish system, and its influence upon the national life of this repub- 
lic, a graver danger than the comparatively small accumulation 
of domestic wealth? Have many of our great financiers not 
proven their public spirit and patriotism by expending their sur- 
plus wealth for national benefit ? Does the English credit-sys- 
tem not lack such spirit? Is not perhaps England's influence in 
American affairs and the world-wide ambition of her financiers 
the present danger of our democratic institutions ? Do the 
American people not now give some thought to the dangers which 
arise in international combinations and coalitions? Great and 
beneficial, indeed, has English influence proven itself to be so 
far in the expanse of Christian civilizations. Will it always re- 
main so? 

The leaders of English civilization have sense, par excellence. 
Have they such reasoning powers as well? 

Sense and Reason are very different factors in the compound 
of human consciousness, and both factors are required to insure 
fitness of survival. Sense may suffice to survive in lowly condi- 
tions, but Reason is needed to guide and sustain the human doing- 
powers in highly evolved stages of intellectual and national devel- 
opment. 

England now enjo3'S the highest stage of twentieth century 
civilization. She plays the dominant part in the international 
game for world-control. If Reason sustains her advance she may 
long retain her international prestige and predominance as a civi- 
lizing power. If there be false pretense in her diplomacy and error 
in her policy of advance she may lose her dominant hold on the 
affairs of the world, as other world-wide powers have lost their 
hold in former times. 

The Truth will come to prevail again. Upon this hope do the 
foes of the English world-policy and of the international credit- 
system base their claim to international leadership. The attempt 
to look into coming events demands much food for thought. 
The recorded experiences of past ages and their elucidation of 
natural principles of procedure will furnish interesting lights to the 

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possibility of looking into the future and of removing the veil of 
uncertain fate from the certain causes of destiny. 

The possibilities of sustaining the international credit-system 
are surrounded by uncertainties. If these United States, abound- 
ing in natural resources, carefully foster their trust-systems, they 
may avoid entanglement in any possible collapse of the interna- 
tional system of credit. The trust-system, how^ever, can only 
prove a safeguard while it remains a national institution, and in- 
dependent of foreign financial control. 

The public enmity against the growth of domestic wealth 
is to be deplored, inasmuch as this growth can be made tributary 
to national welfare more readily than the foreign money power, 
and also inasmuch as it tends to destroy the possibility of main- 
taining a somewhat independent national system of finance. 

Every nation needs a 

"Curia", 
a permanent organization to look after individual and national 
welfare. 

No individual thinker at this present moment can truthfully 
answer the many questions which present themselves in consider- 
ing the management of America's national affairs. Who can com- 
petently deal with the relationship of international credit to that 
of national finance? Who can foresee the result of the late war 
between domestic and international financiers? Who at this 
moment can realize the far-reaching consequences resulting from 
the sacrifice of national finance to the international credit-system? 
Who knows when national prosperity should be sacrificed to the 
interests of international welfare? Who even knows when and 
why individual interests should be sacrificed to national welfare or 
national interests to individual welfare? Both kinds of sacrifices 
are needed. Antiquity has largely dealt with this reciprocity of 
interests, as conditions arising out of the organizing causes opera- 
tive in nature, language and civilization. Modern thought ignores 
this reciprocity of interests, as it ignores the causes of all condi- 
tions of organic existence. It does not look upon the organizing 
power, active in the threefold process of human existence, (nature, 
intellectuality and civilization,) as the mainstay of human welfare. 
It does not connect its various fragmentary aspects and concep- 
tions of Fact with the organizing causes of existence, but it pre- 
sents these aspects and opinions in categorically assorted forms of 
characterless opinions. 

Since modern thought of all kinds ignores the organizing 
causes, it furnishes the mind with no true hold on Fact, and, as a 
consequence, our pronounced thinkers dififer widely in their opin- 
ions regarding the relationship of state rights to national rights or 

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that of individual rights to civic rights, and they give little or no 
thought to the relationship of national to international affairs; in 
fact, the reciprocity of interests arising in organic relationship is 
not understood by any modern thinker. No modern thinker knov^s 
the difference between bloodless system and characterful organi- 
zation, yet the difference is all-important and should be thoroughly 
understood by people who attempt democratic administration. 

Bloodless systems differ from characterful organization as 
tne relativity of things, tattght by modern learning, differs from 
organic relationship, or as a doll differs from a child. The differ- 
ence exists in the conception of causes. The learned conceptions 
of causes are all of a mechanical, non-vital kind, while the causes 
operative in the process of nature have organizing tendencies, ca- 
pacities and character. The workings of both the mechanical con- 
ceptions of causes and the consciously living and active causes in 
nature and human life, must be understood before the study of 
national household economy can be harmonized with that of 
social welfare, or before bloodless systems can be harmonized 
wiih social organization. The human mind must be raised to an 
intellectual character-height where it can unify the work of blood- 
less system with that of social organization, before the civilizing 
endeavor can result in establishing measures conducive to the 
welfare alike of individual and nation. 

An organization for the study of national household economy 
— cameralistics — is the lesser need of great civilizations, the 
greater need being that of a "Curia", an organization which can 
harmonize the material needs of civilized life with its social 
requirements — which can harmonize the means-developing, bread- 
Vvnming powers of sense with the characterful doing powers which 
make such reasonable use of means as to benefit every part of the 
social organisim, as well as the organism at large. Every nation 
needs an organization of men and women whose knowing and 
doing powers are sufficient to master the problem of "isodatic" 
distribution of civic rights and duties. 

The study of national household economy and that of organic 
social relationship cannot be mastered by either scientific or theo- 
logical thought, for both in their way of thinking, reasoning and 
determining ignore the organizing causes active in the process of 
existence. He who is not fully enlightened as to the organizing 
causes can only form opinions of life's requirements — of right and 
wrong, of good and evil — and the opinions so formed are not ra- 
tionally conceived; they are only products of uncertain guesswork. 
The difference between opinions and gisty judgments consists in 

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the fact that opinions are formed without knowledge of the organ- 
izing causes, while gisty judgments are focalized in the living con- 
sciousness of these causes. 

Scientific thought 
is exact, but its work is only relatively true, and relatively true 
ideas do not fairly represent the living, organic character and its 
requirements. 

Modern theology 
is ignorant of the organizing power in the process of life which 
produces the living character; it does not know that the Bible- 
work, as well as all sacred writings, presents the workings of the 
organizing causes by living pictures of organic language, as the 
Living Gist of all Fact; it substitutes God-ideas for living God- 
consciousness, and it deals with the requirements of life in opin- 
ionated and visionary ways. It talks about possibilities of some 
other world than ours, but it ignores or misi"epresents or treats in 
visionary ways that vvhich is right and reasonable in this world. 
For these reasons, neither the study of cameralistics nor that of 
any higher organic requirement of civilized life can be effectually 
handled by either theological colleges or universities in the manner 
in which these proceed at present. The evolution of the civilizing 
power in the human mind requires a special institution devoted to 
the study of organic causes, and special talent in mature minds to 
pursue that study effectively and practically. 

China has long recognized this need; its recognition grew out 
of its sacred traditions. Historic China has vainly labored to 
re-establish the cause of its pre-historic greatness, the original 
Great Learning, which elucidated the organizing causes in the 
process of nature, of spoken intellectuality and of civilization. It 
has established the Han-lin College, with the view of evolving civi- 
lizing power and administrative ability of an organic type, but that 
College has failed to do efifective work, because the sacred writings 
of China, as well as the facts which these writings represent, are 
as inaccessible to the modern Chinese mind as the gist of biblical 
writings is to our learned thinkers. 

The welfare of commonwealth is inseparably connected with 
the welfare of the individual. The relation of family to state is 
that of leaf to tree ; it is an organic relationship ; the life of the one 
supports the life of the other. This relationship, being of a living 
and organic character, cannot be essayed from the viewpoint of 
either empiric or dogmatic learning; it must be studied in the light 
of the causes of organic development and evolution which pri- 
marily arise in living self-consciousness, which have been pre- 

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alphabetically evolved by the use of organic language, and which 
are elucidated in all so-called sacred or testamentary writings. All 
these writings are framed in a truly organic type of language, 
which is unintelligible to the alphabetically developed mind, but 
which is indispensable to fact-knowing and truth-telling. 

The financial systems, the trust-system, in fact, all systems, 
are limbs on the trunk of the "Coiling and re-coiling peach tree" — 
the tree of national life. They support the leaves, blossoms and 
fruits, and they in turn are supported by the root and trunk of the 
tree, in accordance with the organizing principles of nature. If 
human society were educated and regulated in accordance with 
these principles, then the financial s3^stem-work would be perfected 
accordingly, and some of its profits would be made to flow contin- 
uously through national treasuries, not merely by force of taxa- 
tion, but rather by reason of community of interests. 

While modern theology fails to understand the use of truly or- 
ganic language, and thus failing, fails to fairly interpret testamen- 
tary writings, as well as to elucidate the organizing causes active in 
the process of life, of spoken thought and civilization, while 
science deals only with phaenomena and conditions, regardless 
of the causes which produce them, it will be necessary to pursue 
the study of individual and social welfare in other than the ways 
of modern learning. No branch of modern learning makes 
right-thinking and right-speaking its study. All deal in hidebound, 
categorical and terminological systems of rhetoric. All ignore the 
logic of life and the ways and means by which it can be elucidated in 
thought and pursued in fact. Therefore, a new school of thought, 
which goes beyond alphabetical possibilities and the present under- 
standing of actualities, and which makes fact-knowing, truth- 
telling and right-doing the object of its endeavors, is needed in 
modern civilization. The organizing causes must be made known, 
in order that Right and Reason may rule in organic society, and 
not bloodless systems. 

In order to pursue the study of organization and home gov- 
ernment, the young people of high character and ability in every 
nation should organize themselves permanently to proceed in 
ways quite different from those employed in university or college. 
The earth is peopled by many different races, having differ- 
ent tendencies and capacities, which must be developed in national 
ways to suit time and space. No one nation can ever successfully 
dominate all the earth, while racial differences exist. The nations 
of the world are to civilization that which the family is to the state 
in which it lives, i. e., an integral and necessary part. The unifica- 
tion of the human race in this age cannot go so far as to wipe away 
the racial differences and to bring the various stages of their devel- 

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opment under the regime of the same system, or even under the 
rule of the same organizing endeavor. All educational methods, 
the world over, may proceed toward the same end to evolve the 
organizing powers in various nations and races, but they must 
employ various ways and means to suit the various stages of pres- 
ent character-development. Education which does not success- 
fully evolve the organizing powers of the human race will not be 
a successful civilizing power. If peace is to come to earth, the 
organizing power must prevail first within nations before it can 
extend itself internationally. Any international agreement for 
peace, which is not of an organizing character, is doomed to fail, 
as is also any plan of the international financiers to withhold the 
sinews of war in order to enforce peace. When conditions of war 
prevail, war must ensue. 

Missionary work, 
as it is done at present, is not an educational method which can 
evolve the organizing powers among the races of the earth or the 
necessary free-agency character anywhere, for it is done without 
knowledge of the organizing causes. To speak of a God-idea 
is far from elucidating the organizing causes which create and 
maintain the order of life in individual and nation. 

Organization for educational purposes is a necessity, for no indi- 
vidual mind can ever prestmie to deal satisfactorily and properly 
with the ever changeful requirements of a great and growing civi- 
lization. 

The process of intellectual and social evolution is a long, in 
fact, an endless procedure. Individual life is short and not usually 
so well qualified as to follow the eternal process of evolution from 
the beginning to the end of its actualities or possibilities. Only " 
the evolution of organic language makes possible the evolution of 
an organizing. Free-agency Genius, who can know and do the Right 
Thing at the Right Time to promote social evolution at its various 
stages. This required evolution of 

Organic language 
is not a thing which any one individual can accomplish within 
himself; it is a thing which the race has to accomplish, and which 
only can be accomplished by any race if the educational endeavor 
is persistently rational, if it persistently places the organizing 
causes before the public mind as the one Gist of Fact, from which 
all aspects of organic existence must be viewed, understood and .- 
considered. The thoughts which have fitness of survival, and, 
which impart their own fitness to the civilization which they con- 
trol, have obtained this fitness by use of organic language through 
long ages of intellectual development. This use of language began 

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its development as a response to the natural promptings of the 
organic powers of life in the human mind; it reached and passed 
the zenith of its evolution, and thereafter descended into religious 
endeavor. 

The earliest of religious endeavors in antiquity very appar- 
ently aimed to impart the organic powers of living consciousness 
in the human mind to the thinking powers and faculties, by means 
of organic use of language. All religious endeavors were appar- 
ently based upon an understanding of the organizing causes in the 
process of existence. They proceeded by organic means toward 
the regeneration of intellectuality and civilizing power. All relig- 
ious faiths apparently used organic language to embody thought, 
and clearly distinguished the use of organic language, as a charac- 
ter-evolver, from the use of everyday language, as a sense-developer, 
and this distinction all educational organizations should ever bear 



' &■- 



in mind. Academic rhetoric of our age differs from organic lan- 
guage as a stuffed specimen in a museum differs from a living 
animal; it may serve as a means to deal with the outer appearances 
of things, but it cannot represent the organizing causes of life; it 
may be an efficient means to the end of right-living, but 
it is not altogether competent to evolve the human knowing and 
doing powers. It can only develop a part of these powers, and this 
part only in fragmentary ways. It can further sense-development ; 
it cannot evolve the free-agency discerning, reasoning and de- 
termining powers. It can move on the level of sense, but it cannot 
climb up and down the Jacob's Ladder of evolution. Our acade- 
mic rhetoric is only a systematized version of everyday language ; 
it needs the support of a now entirely unknown type of rhetoric — - 
the organic type — in order to make modern educational and social 
endeavor a lasting success. Because the everyday use of language 
cannot supply all the requirements to intellectual and social evo- 
lution, religious endeavor and religious training of mind, which 
hold to the old-time educational way of evolving consciousness, are 
necessities to the healthful growth of civilization. Human society 
cannot exist without religious faith in the care of a truly religious 
organization. Truly religious faith centres thought in the con- 
sciousness and self-consciousness of the living, organizing power, 
and truly religious organizations develop this consciousness after 
the manner of creative principles of procedure, by making thought 
and language organizing powers in civilization. The possibilities 
of harmonizing individual with social welfare rest on the possibil- 
ity of developing and evolving the organizing power in the human 
mind in a threefold way; first, as a natural knowing and doing 
power in living consciousness ; secondly, as an intellectual knowing 
power in the thinking consciousness, and lastly, as a unifying power 

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of the thinking and Hving consciousness in the free-agency will and 
its determinations to sustain the organic order of life. This is the 
original conception of Divine Trinity. 

Antiquity always recognized the necessity of bringing the 
public mind in the way of right-thinking, right-speaking and right- 
determining. It formulated means to that end. It bequeathed 
those means to posterity. When we will come to understand the 
thoughts and intent of the bequest, we will be able to master the 
study of Light and Right, and to evolve organizing powers in the 
public mind which have a true free-agency character — a character 
true to the 

organizing causes 
in the threefold process of existence, the process of living, of think- 
ing and of civilizing. 

Right-speaking has everything to do with the possibilities of 
civilizing human nature successfully. The organic use of lan- 
guage civilizes; hollow talk daemonizes the human mind. Organic 
language is the original cause of social organization and civiliza- 
tion; it is personified as such in all the great cults; it is the WORD 
— the original cause of civilization — in the Old Testament; it is 
the Logos in the New Testament. In principio erat verbum. 

In later historic antiquity, organic language appears to have 
been looked upon as the mediator between the thinking and the liv- 
ing consciousness. The living consciousness seems to have been 
considered as the parent of the thinking consciousness, and the 
Thinking Ego, properly evolved, as the free-agent of the living 
powers. Language, conceived as the mediator between the living 
and the thinking consciousness, appears personified in historic 
antiquity as Mithras or as Christ the Lo^os, the unifying power 
which can harmonize the world of idealit)^ with the powers that 
create and sustain the order of life in the process of existence. 

All that the human mind explicitly knows of Fact or of fan- 
cies — of the workings of nature or of the workings of its own 
thought — is known by means and virtue of language. Language 
converts the living consciousness or raw material of knowledge, in 
part at least, into more or less explicit knowledge; it converts the 
animal intelligence of primitive man into the intellectual powers of 
the civilized mind. 

Intellectual powers are verbally developed features and phases 
of elementary consciousness of life. 

Language has powers to embody the various factors, active in 
the organic character of human consciousness — in the compound- 
of the human knowing and determining powers. Chief among 
these factors is the organizing genius in the human mind — the 
tendency, capacity and desire in human nature to organize family 

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and society after the principles of the organizing powers active in 
the process of nature, which are usually known as the powers of 
creation, because they have called into existence all forms of life, 
all life being organic in character. The power of language to 
embod}^ this organizing genius, its tendencies and capacities, in 
antiquity has been ver}' generally looked upon as the primary, 
original or so-called first cause in the evolution of the human 
intellect out of animal intelligence — of human life out of animal 
life — of civilization out of primitive man's animal-like existence. 
The organizing genius in the human mind, in language embodied 
and making for intellectual evolution, has been conceived as an 
extension of the organizing powers in the process of nature, and 
it, together with and apart from the various faculties of know- 
ing, determining and doing, has been personified in accordance 
with the once recognized rules of organic language. The more 
important of these rules were embraced by the prosopopeia- 
system of organic language. This system served, not only to 
personify the various factors active in human consciousness, but 
it also served to deify these personifications. All God-ideas origi- 
nated in the prosopopeia-system; it served to personify and deify, 
not only the various factors in organic consciousness, but also 
intellectual powers and faculties. This deification had its reason 
in man's recognition of the fact that organization of familj- and 
state, in accordance with living principles, improved the condi- 
tions of human existence. The Gods, then, of the great cults in 
antiquit}" were personifications of the organizing powers in nature 
and human nature, and of various faculties of this power, in lan- 
guage embodied and by language evolved. 

The prosopopeia-system of organic language has been a deifi- 
cation-system. It evolved the organic workings of the intellect 
out of the organic workings of that living consciousness which 
accompanies the powers of life in their course of development and 
evolution. The prosopopeia-system not only evolved the original 
God-consciousness out of the elementary knowing and doing 
powers of the mind, but it produced the specific and personified 
God-ideas, polytheistic or monotheistic. The monotheistic ideas 
originally personified the organizing genius in nature, intellec- 
tuality and civilization: the polytheistic ideas personified the 
various assistant factors which surrounded the consciousness of 
the organizing genius in the human mind. Thus, all God-ideas, 
polytheistic or monotheistic, were embodiments in language of 
various factors of consciousness, and so also were all devil-ideaes. 

The thinking mind personified its own factors of conscious- 
ness in accordance with the prosopopeia-system of organic lan- 
guage, and therebv converted its undefined consciousness of the 

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organizingf powers in nature into specific, verbally personified 
God-ideas, and into ability to organize society in accordance wtih 
living principles. 

All the God-ideas which gave life to the great cults of 
antiquity, were originally verbal personifications of the organ- 
izing power and its special faculties in the process of nature, of 
intellectuality and of civilization. Sun-, serpent-, or other 
phaenomena-worship had nothing to do with the original God- 
consciousness of man; it originated in the common error of super- 
ficial thinkers, that of mistaking the verbal symbol for the fact 
symbolized. 

Thus, religious faith and God-ideas had- their origin in the 
healthful workings of human consciovisness, of sense and of rea- 
son. Religious delusions originated in the decline and abuse of 
the prosopopeia-system, and in the introduction of non-organic 
systems of language, such as are our alphabetical, categorical and 
grammatical systems, and in the confusion of the organic and non- 
organic systems. The organic types of language, which evolved 
the human intellect out of primitive man's, animal intelligence, 
were superseded by numerous non-organic and confusing systems 
in the course of alphabetical over-development. The many non- 
organic systems, of which academic rhetoric is a specimen, caused 
the so-called "confusion of tongues," and the derangement of the 
natural workings of human consciousness. 

Modern theology still deals with the remnants of the proso- 
popeia-system, but in a way entirely diflferent from that pursued 
by antiquity. 

Modern science has dropped the prosopopeia-system entirely, 
and deals only with its rhetorical antipode, the categorical sys- 
tem. It deals only with categorical states of consciousness, by the 
terminological type of language developed, and in peripatetic 
definitions encased. 

These explanations may help to make it clear that in dealing 
with facts or in speaking of truth, scientifically or theologically, 
the thinking mind is not occupying itself directly with nature's 
activity, as is the usual presumption, but is dealing directly only 
with ideas, by language personjfied or in definitions encased. All 
the workings of thought, productive of knowledge, are in types 
of language embodied or encased, and language controls the 
workings of thought in one way or another; it gives thought its 
ability to represent or misrepresent nature's activity in one way 
or another. 

If the part which language plays in our mental economy is 
not made cltar in the process of education, then this process- 
causes confusion in the natural workings of consciousness, of 
sense, reason and will. 

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The thinking mind, educationally enlightened, but left igno- 
rant of the influence of the various types of language upon con- 
sciousness, loses its ability to use its natural faculties in thor- 
oughly rational and health-sustaining ways. >i: * ^- * 
If the alphabetically enlightened mind does not under- 
stand the devious and confusing" ways in which the var- 
ious types and systems of language affect consciousness, 
then it cannot use its natural faculties in accordance with 
living principles and it cannot evolve competent civilizing 
powers. Delusive enlightenment, caused by the confusing influ- 
ence of language upon consciousness, makes the thinking mind 
unreasonable, visionary, opinionated and intolerant, thereby dis-. 
turbing the order of life and destroying the possibilities of main- 
taining a peaceful, organic, social relationship among individuals 
in family and national life. 

The stud}' of the influence of language upon human conscious- 
ness was in antiquity recognized as the necessary foundation 
for intellectual development. * ^ * * * When 

the widety varying influence of the various, more or less 
organic types of language and the many non-organic sys- 
tems of language is not thoroughly understood, then the 
thinking mind cannot accomplish much in the waj' of Fact- 
knowing, nor can it tell the truth fully and fairly about nature's 
activity; it can only guess at Fact, jump at relatively true but 
vitall}'' faulty conclusions, and formi more or less irrational opin- 
ions of the facts which it should be able to represent by gisty 
judgments. 

The study of right-speaking makes possible thorough fact- 
knowing, truth-telling and right-determining, and this lays the 
proper foundation for the evolution of free-agency powers and 
their rightful exercise. Scientific 'ologies and 'isms and theologi- 
cal visions can never evolve free-agency powers. They can never 
develop true lig'hts of consciousness, needed to sustain the rule of 
right and reason. While these true lights are wanting, the estab- 
lishment of permanent peace, internal and external, is not within 
the power of human thought. Civilization is ruled by reason or 
by force. AVhen reason is lacking- in the God-consciousness of 
man, then Mammon must rise in civilization to rule by force. 

While the scientific, theological and philosophical institutions- 
of learning ignore the living connection between the organizing 
powers in the process of existence and the organizing powers of 
human language, it is idle to hope for full and fair enlighten- 
ment of the civilized mind and for the rule of reason and peace in 
social affairs, and it is certain that the intellectuality produced by 



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so-called learning will daemonize the human mind in present civi- 
lization as it has always done in former ages. Intellectuality 
which ignores the organizing powers in the threefold process of 
human existence deludes the natural judging faculties of man, 
misleads his powers of reasoning and perverts the free-agency 
will. It substitutes guesswork for natural knowledge of Fact, 
opinions for gisty judgments, and the rule of arbitrary force for 
that of living reason. It works up a conflict of opinion and 
internecine strife ; it stuffs the mind with ready-made opinions and 
fixed ideas ; it establishes prejudices and privileges and fatal sys- 
tems of instruction, education, legislation and administration, for 
fatal are all systems in civilization which are not ruled by a char- 
acterful organizing power. 

Not religious, not scientific nor philosophical guesswork can 
ever solve any social problems. They can only substitute system- 
work for the required organizing work. Systematically developed 
minds are intellectually perverted minds. System is a thought- 
made and usually stationary thing; life is a natural growth. The 
systematically intellectualized mind should never claim the ability 
of answering any question of life truthfully. Religious faith 
is the instinctive hold which the thinking mind has on the organ- 
izing powers which create and sustain human welfare, and this 
hold was evolved in pre-historic ages by a proper use of the powers 
of language. Religious faith is now the mainstay of civilization; 
upon its full and fair development depends the success of civiliza- 
tion. The organizing God-consciousness evolves free-agency 
character, in accordance with the principles of procedure by which 
the creative powers in nature evolve organic life in all its many 
forms. The development of religious faith is therefore a neces- 
sity in civilized life, but that development must be thorough-going 
and rational ; it must not be visionary. It must not lead thought 
away from the powers of life, nor separate its work from them. 
It must make intellectuality an organic and not a systematic 
superstructure of mind; so it is written. It must evolve the 
powers of reason and not merely develop the faculties of sense or 
of self-sufficient thought. At present religious thought has fallen 
under the control of opinionated minds, which rather divide human 
judgments in visionary and denominational ways than unify the 
reasoning powers in the civilizing instinct and its organizing 
endeavors. 

Religious faith 
is being misled by the hoUowness of theological opinions and irra- 
tional doctrines, until it becomes a character-perverter rather than 
a character-upbuilder. All the questions in civilized life are repre- 
sented in the light of opinion by theologians, who ignore Fact- 

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knowing, Right-thinking and Truth-telHng. Fact-knowing is not 
a mere building of systems of thought upon beHef, as are the 
diverse doctrines of the various Christian denominations at the 
present stage of naturally retrogressive and alphabetically over- 
intellectualized development of mind. The denominational 
branches of the Christian church are products of the systematically 
flattened and categorically excavated intellectuality which harbors 
philosophic visions and abstract ideality. The originators of the 
Christian cult had nothing whatever to do with platonic ideality, 
nor with any philosophic notions or opinions; they were Fact- 
knowers of that type which in the following volumes will be called 
the Sibylline school. 

Upon Christian faith and its original doctrines, modern civi- 
lization may well build its hope for future welfare, but that hope 
must be deferred until the various denominations succeed in their 
present movement of organically unifying the diversity of their 
opinions, and forming one great Trust of Truth-tellers. Theology 
must go out of the opinion-making business into right-thinking 
and right-speaking, and it must teach the public mind the logic 
of life, the logic of the civilizing purpose, the logic of the free- 
agency powers, the logic of the "I must, I can, I will," the logic of 
adjudicative reasoning, formulated in sacred writings, before it can 
bring about betterment of conditions in Christian civilization. 
Syllogizing and categorizing are well enough for scientific pur- 
poses, but they are grave errors in theological endeavor. The 
original meaning of the testamentary writings is as unknown 
today as was the heart of Africa a hundred years ago. The words 
of testamentary writ are known, but the thoughts and intent of 
these words remain terra incognita, because the character of the 
prosopopeia-and symbol-S3'stems, embodied in sacred language, 
seems to be a branch of former enlightenment entirely lost to 
modern thought. It is not at all understood by modern philolo- 
gists. 

■ As with the theological ideas of 

Fact-knowing, 
so with the scientific ideas; they are equally irrational and ill- 
founded. It is absurd to build a system of thought upon observa- 
tions and experiences derived from the channels of special sense, 
if the, natural connection of the faculties of special sense with the 
causes of their evolution, and with their origin in the elementary 
powers of conscious life, be not first known and elucidated. 

Fact-knowing must rest upon the understanding of nat- 
ural causation; it must comprehend the workings of creative 
principles of procedure, as well as the outer and accidental 
interaction of created things: it must comprise a knowledge of the 

XLIII 



origin of life and of the' causes of development and evolution, as 
they are in themselves, and not as they are rendered by the 
thoughts and words of any scientific or theological thinkers. 
Fact-knowing has its natural foundation in living consciousness — 
in the self-conscious genius of life — , and it is therefore unlike all 
scientific or philosophic truth-telling, which has its origin in spe- 
cial sensations or thinking and talking talent. 

Fact-knowing is a threefold process; it has (1) its inner con- 
sciousness — its intuitive or evangelic features — ; it has (2) its outer 
phases — its observations and experiences, or apostolic way of look- 
ing at and conceiving nature's activity — , and (3) it has its power of 
unifying the inner features with the outer phases and thereby pro- 
ducing a picture true to the order of life, its causes of development 
and evolution. Both science and theology take one-sided views of 
Fact. Theology misunderstands the evangelic workings of the 
human knowing powers, while science has not yet come to under- 
stand the apostolic workings of consciousness, that is, the depend- 
ence of faculties of perception upon elementary understanding and 
upon the workings of Native Reason. 

Fact may be defined as nature's activity, arising in the imme- 
diate consciousness of human life. 

Life has a consciousness of its own, which underlies the 
thinking consciousness. 

The consciousness of life is the true raw material of know- 
ledge, which the thinking consciousness must elaborate, by means 
of language, into explicitly enlightened free-agency consciousness. 
The thinking consciousness, at our present stage of intellec- 
tual development, ignores the living consciousness, which stands 
immediately connected with the process of life, with the chain of 
natural causation, and with the organizing power in that chain, to 
which all life in general, and humanity in particular, owes its 
existence. By ignoring the organizing powers, thought ignores 
the principles of procedure in the process of existence, which are 
the natural guiding thread of the thinking and speaking faculties, 
and without which no living criterion of certitude can ever be 
evolved in the public mind. Thought, proceeding without a cri- 
terion of certitude, can only form opinions with regard to the 
requirements of civilized life; as does modern intellectuality. 

The great diversity of current opinion with regard to what is 
right or wrong, good or evil, true or false in social life, is evidence 
of much error and great delusions. Science has its theories, 
theology has other ideas, everybodj'' who has a pronounced opinion 

XLIV 



differs in some way from ever3'body else, and yet every individual 
thinker would like to control the life of his fellow-men by the light 
of his opinions. The opinionated mind always wants to be a 
legislative genius. 

Opinions are poor raw material for legislative purposes. The 
laws which are made out of opinions are not respectfully consid- 
ered by thinkers who disagree with the opinions, and therefore 
opinion-made laws not only fall into disrepute, but they develop 
themselves into causes of social disintegration and internecine 
strife. 

All great historic nations have suffered much from the alpha- 
betical over-development of the thinking powers and from the 
undue influence which opinions always exert upon the legislative 
machinery. Therefore a more thorough knowledge of Fact is 
essential to the welfare of civilization. 

In order to bring the public mind and its intellectual leaders 
to a point where they can see Fact in its own true light and 
determine upon doing the Right Thing at the Right Time in the 
way of development and evolution, it may be well to resurrect the 
now unknown Great Learning of pre-tartaric China and its "Logic 
of the Mean", for this Learning made thorough Fact-knowing the 
foundation of Right-thinking, Right-speaking, Right-doing; and 
it may also be well to resurrect the now unknown original mean- 
ings of the vestiges of ancient art, which represent the experiences 
of past civilizations. With this point in view, the symbol-and 
prosopopeia-systems of antiquity will be elucidated in the follow- 
ing volumes by reproduction of vestiges of ancient art and inter- 
pretations of the original meaning of mythological or so-called 
sacred story. These remnants of ancient thought will eventually 
be found to have a power which transcends that of modern 
rhetoric and which can make that knowable which is now consid- 
ered unknowable. 

Right-thinking 
must be understood to mean the adherence of thought to the living 
consciousness of the. organic powers active in natural causation. 
It must include, not only the judging of phaenomena in their con- 
nection with the inner workings of nature, but also the aligning of 
iudginents after the manner of nature in the way of cause and 
effect, of organic development and evolution. Right-thinking 
must make the logic of life the foundation of judging, reasoning 
and determining. To lav this foundation, the verv causes of life — ■ 
the organizing powers in the process of nature — must be fully 
and fairly elucidated, from Alpha to Oinega, from universal con- 
sciousness to the height of free-agency self-consciousness. 

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Right-thinking has nothing to do with categorizing or syllo- 
gizing; there are no categories in the process of nature. The cate- 
gories are intellectual tools produced by thought for use in its own 
workshop. Syllogizing is not reasoning; only sophists and opin- 
ionated philosophers consider syllogizing a way of thinking which 
can lead to truth-telling. 

liight-thinking, which makes the logic of life its foundation, 
must make the logic of adjudication its principle of procedure in 
devel "ping the civilizing powers of the human mind, and in evolv- 
ing the free-agency character. The logic of adjudication is intel- 
lectually v\hat the logic of organization is practically, an organ- 
izing procedure which uses available means to the end of right- 
living. It is this use of means which the Sibylline school has 
formulated, and to the use of which the Great Learning of pre- 
historic China opens the door. 

Two discussions on questions of the hour with men prominent 
in political and social life may help to throw light on the moving 
spirit of the "powers that be" in the world of finance, in political 
life, in the workings of party machinery and in the status of intel- 
lectual development. The first took place with the editor of an 
insurgent paper, who had been loudly active in condemning the 
political representatives of the railroad systems and the practices 
of the higher-ups during and after the recent financial crisis. The 
second was had with a public-spirited gentleman of unquestiona- 
bly high character, connected with the banking business, and sus- 
pected of being a scout of the international programmers. 

DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITOR. 

THE EDITOR — No, I cannot say that I understand the pur- 
pose of the insurgent movement. I presume it's intended to turn 
some rascals out and give others a chance. I don't think there is 
much virtue behind it; I joined it because it's popular. If a news- 
paper wants circulation, it must give the people what they want. 
The people like to read about the rascality among the higher-ups. 
To advertise some higher-ups as rascals makes politicians success- 
ful and gives a newspaper circulation. 

QUERY— Did it ever occur to you that the present insurgent 
movement is possibly connected with the present contraction of 
credit, that both movements belong to the same program, and that 
this program seems directed especially against men who control 
railroads and great industrial enterprises in this country? 

THE EDITOR — Possibly so. The men who control the rail- 
roads have played a high-handed game in politics and finance, and 
they are not very popular in consequence. 

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QUERY — Is not perhaps the public enmity toward railroads 
the result of systematic disparagement of railroad interests by 
the Press? Has public feeling not been worked up against cer- 
tain railroad men and domestic financiers, for the purpose of forc- 
ing them to hand over the control of the railroads to other and 
perhaps foreign financiers? 

THE EDITOR — It does look as if change in control of the 
railroad systems was aimed at. The withdrawal of credit from 
certain men in control of great railroads, and the simultaneous 
attack on the politicians who operate under railroad control indi- 
cate that someone else, besides the people, is after the railroad 
men. 

QUERY — Isn't someone cleverly directing the Press agita- 
tion against railroads and railroad financiers in connection with 
the insurgent movement? 

THE EDITOR — I don't think so. I know of no paper that is 
being subsidized. I am in the movement only because it's popu- 
lar and it pays to have public patronage. 

QUERY — If it be true that the insurgent movement is 
directed against certain domestic financiers who control railroads 
and great enterprises, mainly for the purpose of taking this con- 
trol from them and placing it in the hands of English financiers, 
is that not sacrificing the best interests of the country? 

THE EDITOR — Possibly, but that is not my concern. I 
have tried long enough to run a paper in the best interests of the 
people, and I have lost subscriptions and thereby the patronage of 
merchants who advertise. I have had to quit working for public 
benefit; I am now working with public sentiment. If it directs 
itself against railroads, against predatory wealth, against graft, 
it seems worthy of support and it pays to support it. Never 
mind the result of the agitation. The shake-up may land us 
deeper in the hole; it probably will, but we can probably take care 
of that when the public finds it out. A newspaper must swim with 
the stream; it must give the public what it wants. The public 
wants something; it never knows exactly what. It loves sensa- 
tions and excitement, and for these it pays. 

QUERY — Is not someone directing popular sentiment, 
through the channels of the Press and Literature, in ways to suit 
great financial interests other than those which are especially 
domestic? 

THE EDITOR — I presume someone must do the long-headed 
thinking in national life, and direct public attention to needful 
changes, and I presume the great financiers make it their business 
to look after their own interests, as well as that of the public, when 
they make their influence felt in political program-work. 

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QUERY — If the political program-work is done to suit for- 
eign financiers, are not perhaps national interests sacrificed? 

THE EDITOR — Eventually, perhaps, but not at present. Our 
interests .hinge on prosperity. At present we have really more 
prosperity than the mass of the people are entitled to enjoy. 

QUERY — Isn't it treason to democratic institutions to allow 
foreign financiers to control the domestic policy of this country? 

THE EDITOR — Not particularly. The greatest financial 
powers can do better work in developing the resources of the 
world and in regulating the commerce than can smaller financiers. 
Regulated it must be; let the best man have the controlling 
voice. The people can't regulate their own national affairs and 
international connections. They are like a big jelly-fish with a 
very little head. The body grows bigger, but the head doesn't. 
Someone must do the thinking- for the democratic jelly-fish. 
Whether foreign or domestic financier make the program, what 
is the difference? We cannot surround ourselves successfully 
with a financial wall. There is nothing treasonable in the pro- 
gram as long as the authorities at Washington approve of it. 

THE DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS WITH THE SUSPECTED SCOUT. 

QUERY^What is your idea regarding the present reform- 
movement in politics and finance? 

THE SCOUT — A good movement, badly needed in this coun- 
,try. Nowhere on earth is there so much high financing and 
political grafting as in the United States. These abuses cannot 
be tolerated. 

QUERY — How can they be brought to an end? 

THE SCOUT — By rigorous enforcement of the law; — by put- 
ting speculative bankers and political grafters in jail. 

QUERY — All of them, or only a few? 

THE SCOUT — A few to begin with, and to make an example 
of, so as to scare oft the balance. If that doesn't do it, keep the 
mill of punishment going. 

QUERY — A simple process, isn't it, that of scaring people 
into goodness? What a pit}'- that it doesn't always do the desired 
work! The flies refuse to be scared off the social jam-pot. 
Nature goes where there is power and opportunity. Do not men 
usually refuse to be scared into being good? The medieval 
authorities employed most extraordinary ingenuity and means in 
scaring heretics into piety, without securing allegiance to their 
regime. The southern gentry believe in burning negroes at the 
stake, in order to scare them from committing rape, yet they are 
constantly being charged with it. Our theologians still preach 

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eternal hell-fire and eternal salvation, and yet we need more and 
more penitentiaries. 

THE SCOUT — Fear of punishment has a salutary effect upon 
some people, at least. It is about the only way of checking the 
abuse of power and opportunity. 

QUERY — Could moral training not bring about a change in 
public character, so that the wish and will to do wrong may not 
prevail? 

THE SCOUT — Visions! The public doesn't take kindly to 
moral training; it is not open to any movement aiming at improve- 
mfent ni its own ranks. It wants everybody and everything else 
improved, but it considers itself all right, and it is so. It is good 
raw material for the building up of civilization. Leadership 
moulds public behaviour; it makes builders-up or tearers-down 
of the people. Leadership, financial and political leadership, 
should be improved in some way. Its deliberate violation of the 
law should be punished. 

QUERY — If the lower half of the social pyramid is made of 
such uncertain material, is not the upper half in danger? 

THE SCOUT — There certainly is constant danger, and it is 
necessary to keep an eye to windward, and, if possible, to nip dan- 
ger in the bud. 

QUERY — Does that mean to so control the opinion-making 
business that the seeds of social disturbance may not be sown? 

THE SCOUT— Practically, yes. 

QUERY — But all knowledge being a matter of opinion, who 
is to say whose opinions are orthodox and whose heterodox? 

THE SCOUT — The men who carry the greatest burden of 
responsibility in feeding the world's millions. 

QUERY — Do you mean the men who control the international 
system of finance? 

THE SCOUT — I mean the people who work to live, in gen- 
eral, and the people who provide the ways and means to feed the 
world, in particular. 

QUERY — If the world's great financiers are particularly 
included among these people, is there not some evidence of 
incompetency noticeable in their ranks? Is the financial strin- 
gency of 1907 not an evidence of this incompetency, or is it not, 
perhaps worse, an abuse of power and opportunity? 

THE SCOUT — Hard to tell the causes of financial stringen- 
cies and panics. 

OUERY — Do we not thoroughly know the causes of the 
financial panic in 1893? 



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THE SCOUT — That is different. When the hand is played 
out we know what was in it, but while the game goes on we can't 
see all the cards. 

QUERY — Has the insurgency movement in the ranks of the 
Republican party anything to do with the causes of the recent 
contraction of credit and financial stringency? 

THE SCOUT — Well, if it is not a branch of the same reform- 
movement, it is at least a happy accident. It gives a good oppor- 
tunity to the powers that be to bring order out of the chaos of 
industry, commerce and finance. The financial and political 
reform-movements should go hand in hand, in order to put public 
welfare on a secure foundation. The insurgents aim to stop the 
abuses of political power, and especially those instigated by preda- 
tory wealth. Their work directs itself against high finance and 
speculative banking, and thereby affects the interests of interna- 
tional finance, giving an originally national movement interna- 
tional bearings, and causing far-reaching- disturbances, which may 
have brought on contraction of credit, assuming unexpectedly the 
proportions of a financial crisis . 

We have just come to realize that the great problem before 
us is how to make humanity work, how to feed it, and how to 
keep it from fighting. To solve the problem, the world's 
resources must be economically developed and distributed. In 
order to do that in effective and peaceable ways, the men of great 
wealth and enterprise — the world's financiers — must stand shoulder 
to shoulder in honest endeavor. The men of money, who control 
the banks and international credit-making power, must not use 
funds entrusted to them, or even their own money, for purposes 
of get-rich-quick speculation or even individual wealth-getting, 
and they certainly must not engage in the business of getting- 
rich-quick by corrupting the political life of nations. The finan- 
ciers who control banks should arrive at an agreement among 
themselves how to use their credit-making power, rather for 
national and international benefit than for the amassing of 
immense individual fortunes, further tending to bring discord into 
the world of finance. Financiers must not fight among them- 
selves, for this sort of fighting results in public calamities, contrac- 
tion of credit, empty dinner-pails, etc. Nor must corrupt politi- 
cal powers, here or there on earth, be permitted to interfere with 
the work which the financial system has to do for humanity. 
There must be no political grafting, no extortion of protection- 
money or other interference with the legitimate work of handling 
the bank's money; no speculative banking, which disturbs the 
safetv of legitimate, industrial banking business, as has been the 
practice in the United States. When people entrust their monej^ 



QUERY — Was the Sherman Law not a war-measure of the 
same character as the Trojan horse, being one thing in appearance 
and another in fact ? Was it not originally conceived on the other 
side of the Atlantic by English financiers? Was it not imported 
into this comitry throvigh the channels of diplomacy and journal- 
ism, and represented as a necessary means to stop the alleged 
aggressions of predatory wealth and the growth of monopolies in 
this country, while in reality it was intended as a war-measure, to 
destroy the independence of American financiers and force them 
into submission to the greatest of all trusts and monopolies, the 
world's international system of finance? 

THE SCOUT — It seems to have had that effect, as far as the 
great railroad men and some speculative financiers were con- 
cerned, but the eft'ect may have been a mere incident; its original 
purpose may not have been other than that of checking the growth 
of monopolies, which threatened to become dangerous sources of 
wealth in the hands of certain individuals. Planning against the 
growth of monopolies and other practices of high finance in this 
country, may have opened opportunities for European investments, 
which were not included in the original plan or program, and thus 
the reform-movement, originally only of national origin, may have 
developed itself unexpectedly into a war of foreign money-interests 
against American financiers. The men who stood sponsors for 
the passing of the Shermaji Act certainly did not consider it a 
loaded horse. If England's financial system be the g'reatest of all 
monopolies, it is also the one least prompted by narrow self-inter- 
est and least opposed to the best interests of civilization ,but one 
making uniformly for the peace and prosperity of all nations. 

QUERY — If the men who control the international system of 
finance are prompted by none other than the laudable endeavor 
to provide work and bread for the millions, why then do so many 
of their representatives in this country endorse the abuse of legal 
and judicial power? Why this desire to manufacture criminals? 
Why these Dreyfus cases? Why the orders from afar to convict 
anj'way, — "If you have no cause, find one)"- — Why all this under- 
ground railroading? 

THE SCOUT — When you go fox-hunting, and turn loose a 
pack of hounds, 3'ou cannot guarantee that some curs will not join 
in the chase and bring the fox to another than legitimate execu- 
tion. 

So far the discussion was carried on in a very friendly spirit 
between old-time friends. Now came the final query, politely 
put, but to the point, and not fit for publication. This query pro- 
voked the wrath of the scout, indicating that there was "a nigger 
in the fence." 

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THE SCOUT— "You will be sorry for taking that side." 

And friends of almost life-long standing parted, to meet as 
friends no more. The questioner had taken no side; he had not 
intended to take any, but he had given mortal offence by pointing 
the analytic sword at the vulnerable spot in the back of Siegfried, 
the mythical personification of the powers which aimed to conquer 
the world in peaceful ways, and which are again coming to the 
fore in civilization. 

This little occurrence of giving offence may make it clear to 
thoughtful minds that the financial question must not be probed 
too deeply. Even a hint at the vulnerable spot gives mortal offence, 
and endangers the safety of the powers which support civilization, 
and which should not be destroyed or even disturbed, for such 
disturbance might throw civilization back to the conditions mythi- 
cally depicted in the Niebelungennoth. 

The financial powers, aiming at peace, lay a fitting foundation 
for the advancement of civilization, and this work entitles them to 
respect. Money-sense must have a ruling voice in the world's 
affairs, that the millions may live ; it must rule the system-work 
in social life, to give stability' to the trunk and branches of the 
national tree. Upon the foundation which the international 
credit-system lays, all nations must build their national character 
if they want to evolve fitness of survival. Money-sense must 
underlie all reasonable endeavor; means-development must pre- 
cede the evolution of the power to make reasonable use of means. 
This assertion is scripturally authenticated. The abuse of the 
credit-making power is possible, but it is probably not one of the 
now dominant intentions of the powers that be. Our civilization 
may safely trust its material and relative welfare to the financiers, 
who at present control the world's resources and their distribution. 
Even ambitious and sceptical Germany seems to have endorsed 
the international credit-system. 

In essaying the subject of errors of thought and their evil 
influence in the development of civilization, we may safely leave 
the financial question out of particular consideration. The love 
of money may be at the root of all evil, as Timothy will have it, 
but if so, it is only an incidental cause of evil. The Old Testament 
points to errors of thought as the original cause of evil, and this 
cause should be fully elucidated before considering any incidental 
causes. If errors of thought can be corrected, and better lights 
placed before the modern mind than those which the ruling opin- 
ions furnish, then the men of money may never again abuse their 
power; they may rather seize the opportunity to lastingly serve 
civilization. But the opportunity of correcting errors of thought, 
so as to improve human character, is very distant. Probably no 

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to banks, they must feel that it is being used legitimately for the 
industrial support of the world and for public good, and not for 
speculative purposes, to create money-greed and billionaires. And 
the legitimate banker, who has to trust other bankers, must feel 
that this trust is not being abused, and his money rendered inse- 
cure by speculation. Speculating with banking money is the 
most dangerous phase of gambling; it is one of the things which 
must be stopped, if the millions are to be fed to best advantage. 
The msurgent movement materially aids in solving the great 
problern. 

QUERY — Is the Sherman Law a specimen of the assistance 
which the insurgents render to the world's financial movement? 

TfiE SCOUT — It certainly is. It tends to stop the amassing 
of great individual wealth out of monopolies and unduly inflated 
values. 

QUERY — That sounds very nice as a general proposition, but 
in its particular application is it not a specimen of special legisla- 
tion with a vengeance, and entirely outside of all constitutional, 
statutory, defined principles of law-making? Is it not an unde- 
fined law, which can be applied to one man or combination of 
capitalists, so as to make them criminals, and to other men or 
combinations of capitalists, working in the self-same way, so as 
to make them appear as doing an honest, legitimate business? Is 
this kind of legislation not making it impossible for the members 
of any great industrial corporation to know whether they are 
doing a legitimate or a criminal business, until their case has been 
adjudicated in all the courts of the land? Even if finally adjudi- 
cated, have the judges not power to change their opinions regard- 
ing the legality of corporate operations under this law^could 
they not condemn those tomorrow to whom they have given a 
clean bill of health today, or vice versa? Is the Sherman Law 
not of such an undefined and undefinable character that it places 
too much power in the hands of opinionated thinkers, occupying 
political and judicial positions? 

THE SCOUT — The politicians have not the power of ultimate 
decision; the courts have it. The character of the covirt always: 
has much to do with the just or unjust application of the laws, no 
matter how well and clearly defined they be. The courts we have 
to trust, and I think we may safely do it. 

QUERY — Can we trust them to have Salomonic or Judas 
Iscariot sense, or both, or neither ? 

THE SCOUT — The judiciary, as the highest national power, 
has not often allowed justice to miscarry. 

QUERY — Are not the lower and the higher courts of the land 
a long distance apart, and is it not slow and expensive traveling 

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from one to the other? Is there no danger in making laws 
which enable the same judge to stamp the same act either as 
criminal or as legal, right and reasonable? 

THE SCOUT — The courts are not liable to abuse this power. 

QUERY — Certainly not. They are not going into the busi- 
ness of legal spoliation or judicial blackmail. But does not the 
very fact that a court has this power to consider the managers of 
great commercial enterprises criimnals, if it so chooses, open the 
door to confiscation of property, by scaring capitalists to hand 
over fortunes rather than run the chance of being accused, brought 
to trial, and possibly convicted? Did it not have this exact effect 
in some cases we know of, where hundreds of millions involved 
were transferred, under threat of criminal investigation? 

THE SCOUT — The Sherman Law was not to blame for the 
most notable of these cases, but the uncertainty which attaches 
itself to the construction of all laws, even those which are fairly 
well defined. And then these wrongs occur only in times of war, 
when much is considered fair which otherwise would be con- 
demned. The powers that be are forced to make war for honest 
purpose, for establishment or maintenance of Right, but the 
camp-followers speedily appear on the scene to rob the wounded. 

QUERY — Were certain great newspaper interests not forced 
to la}^ down their independence directly to the powers that be, 
during the last contraction of credit and because of it? 

THE SCOUT — Directly, hardly; indirectly, probably. The 
Ishmaelites in the opinion-making business, like the Ishmaelites in 
the banking business, are not working in the best interests of civi- 
lization. Civilization and justice do not suffer by putting the 
bridle on them. 

QUERY — What if national interests should ever clash with 
international interests, for instance, with those of the interna- 
tional system of finance? Would the power of national courts 
prevail over the international interests, or vice versa? 

THE SCOUT^ — The Lord only knows! When reasoning 
ends, fighting begins, and the big fellow presumably can make the 
little fellow see on what side Right lies. 

QUERY — Were the Sherman Law and the last financial crisis 
not two conceptions, hatched in the one nest by birds of passage, 
for the purpose of solidifying the financial factors and regulating 
the credit-making power in the world ? 

THE SCOUT — Hard to read the thoughts and intent of men! 
The insurgency movement and the Sherman Law seem to be 
admirably adapted for the work of correcting abuses of power in 
financial and political circles. They look like parts of a well- 
studied program. 

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it can, and arrogating to itself all the good things of life, by fair 
means, if possible, if not, by foul means? Will the average man 
not naturally seek to overreach his fellow-men, and must the Men 
of Mammon not alw^ays be on the lookout that they are not being 
so overreached by the people? And vice versa, must the people not 
always fear the greed of the Alen of Mammon? 

Until effective truth-telling forces conviction, the practically 
thinking world of this age will continue to doubt that the silent 
Sphinx can be made to talk and tell the story of human evolution 
out of animal life, which it symbolically represents. But even if 
the causes of human evolution could be fully elucidated and con- 
viction forced upon the doubting mind, even if gisty judgments 
could be made to take the place of uncertain guesswork and 
delusive opinions, even if vitally true lights could be diffused 
throughout the public mind, the work of civilization might yet be 
farther from success than it is now in the hands of financiers who 
put shoulder to shoulder in laboring for the world's material 
development. Knowledge, even if it be thorough-going, falls still 
a long way short of the power which can make world-wide civili- 
zation a lasting success. The power to know is a very dififerent 
thing from the power to do. It differs from it as does the seed 
from the plant; the seeds may fall upon infertile soil, or the young 
growing plant may be crowded out by weeds and never produce 
the healthful growth of free-agency doing powers. 

For these reasons, the men of finance have a right to be jealous 
of their position. They have even a better right to keep a watch- 
ful eye toward the opinion-making business than had the Roman 
church in medieval days, for modern financiers do proceed in 
accordance with time-approved and scripturally authenticated 
principles as yet, while medieval Catholicism proceeded in accord- 
ance with its own misconceptions of Scripture. 

Modern finance means to deal reasonably with the world, if 
the world makes reasonable and not antagonistic response. It 
means to rule the world reasonably, if possible, if not, by force. 
It is ready to receive better lights than those now before it, and 
to act by them, but it doubts, and justly doubts, the possibility of 
securing these lights and of putting them to effective use, for even 
if all the original causes of existence, which are considered scien- 
tifically unknowable, were fully and fairly elucidated, this eluci- 
dation might not 3'^et insure any advance in civilization over and 
above the foundation which the financial .system lays at present. 
The possibilities of building into height, in better ways than 
money can accomplish, depend, not on improving the thinking 
powers alone, but on taking knowledge out of the workshop of 
thought into the workshop of nature and living consciousness, 

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and causing it to grow in the public mind into conscientious free- 
agenc)^ determining character. 

Essaying the subject of errors of thought in a destructive way, 
by pointing to the vulnerable spot in the back of Siegfried, is 
illegitimate endeavor. It is destructive criticism, which tears 
down but does not build up. What intellectual development needs 
is the evolution of mental powers to proceed critically and dis- 
cerningly in devising ways and means of harmonizing the bread- 
winning systems with those of social organization; thereby prac- 
tically solving the Riddle of the Sphinx. Theoretically, in these 
pages, we hope to solve this "ever-problem," by elucidating the 
causes which make civilization a healthful growth or a dying de- 
g^enerate, infested by lingering- disease. 

The best way of getting away from the position which the 
Men of Mammon must hold is to organize society for the devel- 
opment of social and intellectual leadership. The body of the 
social jelly-fish probably does not need better clarified knowing 
powers than it now possesses. It is a natural product, endowed 
wtih natural knowing and doing powers, which serve it well 
enough, but its head — social leadership — -needs to be stimulated 
to grow intellectually in due proportion to the physical growth 
of the body. If the intellectual and social leadership of modern 
civilization were as efficient as they could be and ought to be, the 
financial "earth-lions" could be made as tame, as happy and 
beloved as the domestic cat, publicly venerated in ancient Egypt 
as bemg of divine character. The Gods Shu and Tefnuit were 
domesticated earth-lions of financial and territorial greed. 

The international financiers, in their jealous care of their own 
and the world's interests, are liable to be more wrathful in their 
opposition to theoretical or practical reform-movements than ever 
was the Papal hierarchy in the middle ages. They are satisfied 
with the present status of intellectuality and with the present 
opportunities of wielding their power. Like the public, they do 
not want to see any improvement in the present knowing and 
doing powers applied to themselves, which might interfere with 
their present procedures. They are still willing to permit the 
formation of national organizations of a limited character, in 
order that those who are not altogether satisfied with the best 
regime that financial talent can establish may still have an oppor- 
tunity of organizing themselves for the promotion of national 
interests. 

If the knowing and doing powers in public leadership be not 
improved by a permanent organization of people who devote 
themselves to that purpose, the rule of the financial powers of the 
world is liable to develop itself into what the ancient Japanese 

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man of great financial sense ever can be brought to believe that 
the people could be raised to a character-height where they would 
not steal if the opportunity offered, where they would tell the 
truth if lying served them to better advantage , where they would 
subscribe to the rule of reason if it were not backed up by force. 

The possibility of so raising public character is indeed very 
remote. Even the first step on the way to the solution of the edu- 
cational problem, that of correcting the erring use of the facul- 
ties of thought, and thereby stopping evil at its original source, has 
its great difficulties, the chief difficulty being the evolution of 
lights of consciousness, true to the causes of human origin and 
evolution, for if these causes be not elucidated, then opinion, of 
uncertain value and virtue, will continue to rule the world for 
better or for worse. No man of financial sense, at this stage of 
intellectual development, would take any stock in the assertion 
that a thorough knowledge of Fact is within the reach of the 
human mind. He might admit that better lights than those now 
ruling the world could be developed to control civilized life, and 
that improvement in social conditions could be brought about 
thereby, but he would probably hold that these lights would be 
opinions still; they would not be thorough-going and infallible 
knowledge. 

No man of financial sense, at the present stage of intellectual 
development, could be induced to believe that the extension of 
knowledge could place the leadership of civilization in better 
hands than his own. The Men of Mammon look upon themselves 
much as the conventionally pious look upon their idea of God the 
Father — as the author of civilization. While the Men of Mammon 
do not pretend to have lifted the soil upon which we live out of the 
deep, they consider that their financial sense has been the active 
cause of social evolution , since it made the development of the 
earth's resources and the feeding of the millions possible. They 
therefore look with something of a fatherly eye on the people, and 
have done so ever since the dawn of historic civilization. The 
fatherly eye, however, has not always been one of universal love 
and benevolence. Even the early Babylonians had learned to con- 
sider the Men of Mammon as dangerously sensible, and rather 
rapacious than reasonable. According to rriodern archaeologists, 
they spoke of them as "earth-lions," and their sacred writings 
charged them with arrogating to themselves all the good things 
of life. 

Later civilizations have usually looked with much suspicion 
upon the regime of finance, expressed by the words "by reason or b}- 
force."' The rule of reason usually had to take a back seat as the rule 
of arbitrary force eventually always came to the fore. The Men 

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of Mammon, as fathers of civilization, do not seem to have been 
the most affectionate parents in the history of civilization; they 
seem to have applied a good deal of corrective spanking" to the 
public baby, when it would not be good, from the finantial point 
of view. Hence, the world has come to look with as much distrust 
on the regime of Mammon, as the Men of Mammon feel toward 
the possibility of the world behaving itself, if not forced to do so. 
If the men of money doubt that the public character can ever be 
so enlightened and elevated as to keep it from breaking through 
the restrictions of the Decalogue, if power and opportrmity pre- 
sented themselves, the people have learned to look upon the men 
of money as weaving spiders in social life. 
"The weaving spider, what cares he. 

For love or hate, for friend or enem}^? 
His only aim in life — utilit}'." 

The men of finance view all facts in social life from the stand- 
point of utility, and they consider individual man as a machine in 
the utility-system. The wor Id, on the contrary, looks upon sys- 
tem and machinery as means to the end of improving social life 
and its own well-being; it refuses to be looked upon as a means 
of service to financial system; it sees its welfare as the great end 
of all endeavor. 

Thus the viewpoints of Men of Mammon and of the public mind 
stand irreconcilably opposed to each other. Neither one consid- 
ers the' other as absolutely trustworthy. The world hopes for 
something better than to be ruled by weaving spiders. The men 
of finance can see no possibility of the world's mental emancipa- 
tion to such an extent that force would not have to come to the 
rescue of failing reason in maintaining the order of civilized life. 

Unquestionably humanity has been improved and civilization 
made possible by verbal evolution of the elementarj^ knowing 
powers of man, but has historic civilization ever been improved by 
the conversion of man's animal intelligence into word-vested 
intellectuality? Did not the early work which the gift of lan- 
guage enabled man to do, differ widely from the influence which al- 
phabetical language has exerted upon the human knowing powers 
during the later — the historic — ages? Has the world been im- 
proved by learning to know that the earth is not the centre of the 
universe, or that life is a product of evolution and not a hand- 
made thing? Could the world be improved by making the 'world- 
proce'ss thoroughly known in all its features and phases of causa- 
tion, from Alpha to Omega? Why should such knowledge make 
the masses of the people builders-up rather thantearers-down of 
social organization? A¥ill the world not always travel in the 
line of least resistence, in the hope of getting-rich-quick, as best 

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knew as the Dynasty of Xanthai, with which we will make our- 
selves familiar later. 

If there is any possibility of bringing' the social masses in the 
way of right-living, it is by way of fully enlightened and high- 
character leadership. If there is any way of establishing peace 
on earth within national and international life, it is by evolving 
free-agency character to that height where it will seek peace on 
the foundation of goodwill, and not on the foundation of self-in- 
terest. 

Peace cannot be established on the foundation of self-interest, 
as the Men of Mammon may seek to do it; it must be established 
on the foundation of goodwill, in order to become a lasting factor 
in national and international growth of civilization. 

The way of establishing peace on the foundation of goodwill 
is the now unknown way which pre-historic antiquity has formu- 
lated in the sacred writings of the great cults. When we will 
become thoroughly familiar with the original meaning of these 
writings, we may find them to be of great value to modern civili- 
zation. 



ixx. 



THE RIGHT TO RULE INDIVIDUAL GREED AND COMMON INCOMPETENCY 

The natural intelligence of the Pilgrim Fathers, somewhat 
tinged with bigotry, perhaps, introduced Christian civilization 
into this country, in an endeavor to get away from the arbitrary 
and unfair rule of opinionated minds. 

Life in the Old World during the middle ages Jiad been 
accursed with the self-assertion of individuals who had usurped 
social leadership, or who had, by fair means or foul, put thsm- 
selves into control of the affairs of their fellow-men and of civiliza- 
tion. This individual control had imposed hardships upon the 
masses, and thereb}^ caused the public mind to look upon the 
assertion of individuality as a cause of evil. The world had strug- 
gled for centuries to escape from the fetters of old-time prejudices 
which supported the privileges of the governing individuals and 
their systems, but in finally effecting its escape from the bondage- 
imposing systems of individual government, it reached into the 
assumption that the individuality must never but the majority 
must always rule, and that the ruling power at every moment of its 
procedure must derive its ri'ght from the consent of the governed. 
In accordance with these convictions grew the tendencies toward 
democratic government which eventually led to the establish- 
ment of this republic. The excesses in individual and monarchial 
forms of government reacted into the excesses in democratic insti- 
tutions. Too much individuality in the former gave way to too 
much public enmity toward individualit}' in the latter. 

The establishment of democratic ideas failed to take into 
account the influence of perverted intellectuality in the public mind 
and of great popular delusions. 

The masses undoubtedly have rights which the rulers must 
respect, but have the rulers not also rights which should be res- 
pected? Is Right not a thing which must be viewed and sustained 
from all sides? Is it right and reasonable that the little developed 
intellect and limited free-agency character in the social masses, 
known as public opinion and sentiment, should control the highly 
developed intellect and character of the natural born leaders? 
Should the knowing and doing powers of lesser development con- 
trol those of higher -and greater development ? Has quality in 
human nature no rights which quantity should respect? Is it not 
true that the masses rarely have the ability to rule themselves, 

LX 



that their intellectual development never can keep pace with the 
complexity of requirements in great and growing civilizations, 
and that therefore the}- need the guidance of exceptionally qualified 
minds and of highly evolved free-agency character? Does 
this needed gtiidance in the growth of civilization, by way of breed- 
ing, not naturall}- develop some classes better qualified for leader- 
ship than others?, and does this development not naturally pro- 
duce permanent ruling powers, which rise above the masses much 
as the head in the human organism rises above its body? If the 
quantity of civilized constituents needs qualified individuality 
for guidance and leadership, has that individuality no rights which 
demand respect? Does the assertion that the majority must rule 
not mean that the unthinking", easily misled, always incompetent, 
and often but little scrupulous masses should control the destiny 
of civilization? 

Let it be admitted that the masses usually mean well, but to 
mean well does not necessarily imply the power to do the right 
thing at the right time, so as to insure social welfare. 

EDUCATION VERSUS INSTRUCTION 

Competent leadership being needed, the ways and means to 
its development demand attention. So far, modern civilization 
has not given the subject the necessary attention. Our thinkers 
have not yet come to properly distinguish between education and 
instruction — between the process of drawing the consciousness 
of life out into the realm of spoken thought and the modern meth- 
ods of cramming ready-made ideas into the mind. They have 
virtually ignored the truly educational requirements which evolve 
free-agency powers and truly qualified genius for leadership. They 
have concentrated all their attention upon a certain kind of alpha- 
betical instruction, and this instruction they have misnamed 
education, and applied it both to the masses in the public school- 
system and to the presumably better qualified intellect in the uni- 
versity. 

Modern education builds its system of knowledge upon 
no natural foundation. It cannot lay claim to any understanding 
of fundamental truth. It builds abstract systems of thought into 
the intellectual atmosphere, without giving them a healthful foot- 
ing on the terra firma of living consciousness. 

Tlie gospel of relative truth, upon which rnodern learning 
builds, is an artifice invented by self-sufficient thought, which has 
severed its connection with living consciousness. 

The principal error in modern education is that of crammin 
readv-made, word-vested ideas into the mind,, by way of instruc- 
tion, without leading the living consciousness, naturally active in 

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the undercurrent of life and mind, out into the Height, Depth and 
Extent of intellectual evolution, by way of that education which 
makes the rightful use of language its main endeavor. This error 
in mental training has produced the present one-sided intellectual 
development, which pushes onward in the opinion-making busi- 
ness, but which does not evolve the powers of the understanding, 
needed for the rightful use of opinion and for competent leader- 
ship in advancing civilization. The alphabetical training of mind, 
as practiced in public schools, produces much categorical and dic- 
tionary knowledge, without evolving the reasoning powers needed 
to make rightful use of the knowledge produced. 

The juciging and reasoning powers of both the people and 
their leaders are more or less perverted by the one-sidedness of 
hiodern methods of instruction misnamed education, and while 
those methods continue to prevail, the one-sidedness and super- 
ficiality, by instruction produced, cannot be corrected, and the 
twentieth century mind will not regain the ability of putting itself 
on a proper foundation of conscious understanding, nor will it be 
able to elevate itself intellectually in naturally organic ways above 
the level of bread-winning sense on which it now grovels. Con- 
tinuing to think much in the way in which opinions are now pro- 
duced, the modern mind will drift further and further into con- 
fusion of ideas; it will deceive itself. The masses, little given to 
discerning thought, will not only deceive themselves, but the ten- 
dency to self-deception will be fostered by their much thinking 
leaders. The spreading of deception, consequent to the loose and 
delusive way of thinking in general and to alphabetical instruction 
in particular, will carry the confusion of ideas, known as the "con- 
fusion of tongues", so far that eventually neither leaders nor led 
will know right from wrong, and that the endeavors of both will 
result in their own undoing. 

Perverted intellectuality has ever been and still is the curse of 
all historic civilizations. 

The public mind notices that the conventional and mechanical 
way of thinking in dictionary terms about categorical and ready- 
made ideas produces great results in applied arts and sciences — 
great chemists, mathematicians, etc. — and from the recognition of 
this fact it jumps to the conclusion that this mechanical way of 
thinking may be trusted to also produce great results in thinking 
about aflfairs of life. In this jumping from the mechanical work 
of thought to the living work of nature, the public mind deceives 
itself. A great thinker in the mechanical ways of science is not 
necessarily a great thinker in dealing with the chain of natural 
causation. Nature is not a chemist nor a mathematician. Life 
is not a chemical product ; it is a product of organic procedures, 

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which are unknown and unknowable to either chemists or mathe- 
maticians, as, in fact, to all mechanical thinkers of a scientific 
bent of mind. The public mind misjudges the character of the 
foundation of scientiiic thought, and it is inclined to overestimate 
the extent and value of scientific work. Science is all right in its 
place, but its place is not in political, legal or social affairs. 

The popular belief that all educational, legislative and political 
nonsense cannot do any lasting harm to this civilization, is error; 
as is also the popular expectation that all social derangements 
will correct themselves in the future of this nation, as they seem 
to have done in the past. These assumptions are as unfounded 
as is the expectation that mechanical sciences will produce social 
order. The evils which beset organic life may right themselves 
if the natural growing powers are left undisturbed to do their work, 
but when intellectual perverts arise, as they are now doing in this 
nation, to disturb its life politically and legislatively with hammer 
and tongs, the laissez-faire spirit on the part of the masses is liable 
to meet greater and greater disturbances. 

THE FUTILITT OF POPULAR HOPES 

The public mind entertains great hopes that betterment of 
social conditions will be brought about by the advance of modern 
•learning. In entertaining these hopes, it deceives itself. It does 
not realize that the whole fabric of modern learning stands on the 
categorically excavated and deadened foundation of naturally 
organic intelligence. It does not realize that the fullness of living 
intelligence is converted by the procedures of alphabetical intellec- 
tuality into the hollowness of categorical and other abstract ideas. 

The minds, intellectually excavated and categorically recon- 
structed, were once known as "whited sepulchres", for the rea- 
son that the fullness of natural intelligence, by the intellectualizing 
methods, had been converted into the hollowness of categorical 
ideas, which did not contain the living, organic Gist of Fact, but 
which made talk of truth, virtue and justice a false and death-deal- 
ing pretense. 

The alphabetically intellectualized thinker does not realize 
that the intellectual excavating and categorical reconstruction of 
natural intelligence destroys the working order of the mind and 
substitutes delusive artifice in the way of thinking for natural 
knowing power and the ability to do the right thing at the right 
time in the way of living. If our intellectuals realized this fact, 
they would know the original conception of Biblical "Scribes and 
Pharisees" ; they would know that the great reputation of modern 
learning is largely a false pretense, and that modern thought pro- 
duces word-pictures and terminological diagrams of truth, virtue 

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and justice, without any understanding of the workings of life or 
of its requirements. 

Twentieth century thinkers do not reaHze that modern learning 
has one fatal defect which results in the perversion of the intellect 
and in the consequent evil influence of so-called enlightenment upon 
civilization. The modern thinker is unable to distinguish between 
the consciousness of life and the consciousness of thought. He 
does not know that the natural function of thought and language 
is to elucidate the consciousness of life — that living consciousnes.s 
which accompanies natural causation — and that for the proper 
performance of this function it is necessary for the Thinking" Ego 
to employ means by which it can connect the workshop of thought 
with the workshop of nature, so as to obtain access to the living 
raw material of fact — the elementary consciousness of creative 
principles of procedure and phases of causation. The modern 
thinkers do not understand that it is necessary for thought to enter 
the very workshop of nature in order to do its vvork of intellectual 
enlightenment and discipline properly. They do not understand 
the "reasons why" in natural causation, and especially the reason 
why thought cannot do its work as a civilizing agent properl}' if 
it is not cognizant of the creative principles in the chain of natural 
causation — of the very causes of development and evolution 
which generate the order of life. The modern thinker has not yet 
brought himself to see the fact that if thought proceeds in its work 
of enlightenment, without understanding the workings, procedures 
and principles of natural causation, it cannot produce anything bet- 
ter than abstract, imaginary and hollow pictures of knowledge ; 
nor the further fact that if thought dresses its abstract and imagin- 
ary products in the wordy garb of truth, virtue and justice, it 
deceives itself and all the world. 

All enlightenment produced in the way of thinking and speak- 
ing, which does not include a full and fair understanding of natural 
causation, is aBstract and imaginary. 

To the deadened intelligence of the intellectualized mind the 
work of modern thought may appear meritorious, but, as a fact, 
it is a false pretense and delusive artifice. The ideal systems pro- 
duced by modern thovight have a deadly categorical character 
which belies the organic character of living consciousness. Until 
such time as modern thought again puts itself in possession of 
the forg-otten means of language by which the Thinking Ego 
may efifect its entrance into the workshop of nature and revive 
man's organic consciousness of the organically working causes of 
life in the process of nature, so long will its work be much of a 
false pretense and a cause of spreading popular delusions, and so 

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long will the hope that the advance of learning will better social 
conditions prove futile. 

Modern thought, as it now proceeds, by alphabetical and 
grammatical means of language, can only see the outside of the 
workshop of nature, and it can only see even this outside in special, 
fragmentary and one-sided ways. These ways of seeing nature 
do not supply the mind with the best obtainable raw material of 
knowledge. 

No thinker of this age seems to realize the fact that learning, 
confining itself to the categorical use of alphabetical means, can 
never produce permanent betterment in social conditions, that it 
must always remain ignorant of the causes productive of condi- 
tions, and that such ignorance deprives the mind of ability to con- 
trol conditions as is necessary to public welfare. 

While mental training in civilization is confined to instructive 
methods, which make an opinion-factory and categorical store- 
house of the human mind, there can be no healthful intellectual 
evolution, and while this evolution is non est, the mind cannot pro- 
duce a healthful growth of free-agency character and of civilized 
life. 

The development of man's original knowing powers by the 
various uses of the various t3qDes of language, as well as the influ- 
ence of- intellectual development upon social development, is a 
subject of foremost importance, not at all understood by modern 
thinkers; it is not easily explained in a few words and it is per- 
haps not just here necessarj' to pursue this possibly dry subject 
much further, it being fully elucidated by the thousands of ves- 
tiges of ancient art which will be produced later and which tell 
at a glance more than can volumes of terminological explanation. 
It it but necessary here to note that there is a great difference 
between organization and system — between the organic and the 
systematic use of language — ^ between reasoning from cause to 
consequence and syllogizing — between the prosopopeia methods 
of definition and the categorical system — between gisty judg- 
ments and opinions — between talk to the point and hollow talk 
— between evolving character and tissue-building, etc., etc. 

THE CATEGORICAL DEVELOPMENT VERSUS THE ORGANIC EVOLUTION 

OF THE INTELLECT 

The organic evolution of the human intellect makes truly 
humane civilization possible; the categorical development of the 
human intellect, when standing apart from and opposed to its or- 
ganic evolution, makes civilization a sweat-shop and a death-strug- 
gle for existence. The Gods are the active causes in the work of or- 
ganic evolution ; the intellectualized devils rule in the work of cate- 

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gorical and other systematically fatal developments. All the sacred 
writings of antiquity emphatically agree with this one statement 
of Fact. 

The organic evolution of the human intellect, which makes 
civilization possible, causes thought to proceed organically after 
the manner of nature, and thus proceeding, the mind naturally rea- 
sons from cause to consequence. In this natural way of reasoning, 
the mind evolves free-agency knowing and doing powers, and per- 
chance, also, that goodwill toward mankind, required for the rule 
of right and reason and the establishment of peace in civilization. 

The organic evolution of the intellect, however, is a very differ- 
ent matter from its categorically systematic development, which 
is now promoted and sustained by all modern educational endea- 
vors.. Organic evolution of intellectual powers can only be the 
result of the proper and timely use of organic ways and means. 
Thought and language are the ways and means by which the intel- 
lectual powers can be evolved out of natural intelligence. The 
organic use of thought and language has been abandoned during 
historic ages, as alphabetical development of mind has come to 
prevail in so-called educational endeavors. 

While language had its original organic character, it gave 
natural expression and voice to the consciousness of organic life. 
Men at one time spoke after the manner of nature — after the 
organizing principles in the process of life. Their thoughts gave 
voice to living- consciousness. The alphabetical and grammatical 
development of the intellect, however, came to displace the natural 
and organic use of language; it changed the attitude of thought 
toward living consciousness and toward the natural working- order 
of mind by substituting categorical states of consciousness, termi- 
nologically expressed, for the organic workings of living conscious- 
ness in the human mind. 

Alphabetical and grammatical development of language gave 
the mind explicit categorical states of consciousness, partly repre- 
senting and partly misrepresenting nature's work, but in doing 
this, it deadened the living, organic consciousness of mind and 
made intellectuality an artifice. As the thinking mind became ad- 
dicted to the grammatical use of language and to the now all- 
prevailing practice of dealing in categorical states of consciousness, 
it fell to ignoring the organizing causes active in the process of 
existence, as well as the organic ways and means of the mind which 
could evolve free-agency character and its reasoning and determin- 
ing- powers . This ignoring of the organizing causes deprived the 
alphabetically intellectualized mind of its ability to judge Fact 
fully and fairly, and to reason from cause to consequence, because 
it ignored the natural foundation of the thinking consciousness — 



common sense and native reason — virtually separating the think- 
ing faculties from the living powers . It is this separation which 
makes all judgments of right and wrong, of good and evil, neces- 
sarily a mere matter of opinion. 

Opinions, formulated in the categorical and self-sufficient way 
of thinking", have always led to the invention and establishment 
of fatal systems of law and order in civilization, thereby making 
civilized life a hell on earth and subjecting it to the unreasonable 
rule of perverted intellects. 

The artificially intellectualized mind may usually retain its 
good intentions, but it loses its means of carrying these intentions 
into healthfvil eft'ect. It may continue to talk of Gods, but it can- 
not do godly work b}^ the mechanical and systematic means at its 
■command. The Gods do organic work by organic means; the 
intellectual devils in civilization do system-work by systematic 
means; so the authors of sacred writ asserted, as we will see by the 
story of Sammael in later volumes. 

The Thinking Ego, which uses systematic means without 
understanding of org^anic principles, makes civilization an un- 
natural thing, dependent on the work of abstract thought, opinions 
and prejudices. It makes that appear right which is not 
right and that wrong which is not wrong". It manufac- 
tures artificial criminals and imaginary heroes. It rules the world 
in accordance with the appearance of truth, virtue, justice, but 
in violation of sense and reason; it rules in accordance with opin- 
ion-made laws, without due vmderstanding of natural causes and 
consequences. 

Men of pronounced opinions, who are strangers to right and 
reason, rule the land, from the supreme courts down to the small- 
est political flunkies, in accordance with the hollow talk of learn- 
ing and opinion-made systems, and in violation of right and rea- 
son. 

All factions of the ruling" powers in civilized life now act in 
accordance with the requirements to fatal systems and in dis- 
turbance of the healthful growth of civilization in general and 
national life in particular. 

Public opinion, by artificial intellectuality deluded, endorses 
the existing opinionative regime to its own detriment, as it did 
in the dark ages out of which we have but just emerged, seem- 
ingly only to return into the fatal relationship of ignorance, in- 
tolerance and hatefulness. Once again, the opinions, by pervert- 
ed intellectualit}' produced, are elevating the deadly letter of 
opinion-made laws over the spirit of justice. Once again, right 

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and reason are sacrificed to popular delusions, and the opinions 
of intellectual perverts are given absolute control of social affairs. 

The greatest and latest step in advance of our industrial 
devedopment, Jtlie incorporation of industrial effort, by former 
laws duly sanctioned, is now being placed on trial for violation 
of that most absurd specimen of opinion-made laws, the Sherman 
Act. The machinery that successfully serves to feed a hundred 
millions of people is being violently assailed by intellectual per- 
verts and by political and other parasites. The intellectual per- 
verts who have usurped control of the law-making and adminis- 
trative functions in this land, imagine that they are sustaining 
the welfare of commonwealth when, as a matter of fact, they are 
threatening destruction to the economic foundation of this coun- 
try, as well as to its independence of foreign credit-systems. They 
accuse our industrial leaders of acting criminally in restraint of 
trade, when, in fact, they themselves are acting legislatively, 
politically and criminally, not only in restraint of trade, but in, 
restraint of right and reason. 

THE ORGANIC OR FIGURATIVE AND THE LITERAL OR CATEGORICAL 

USE OF LANGUAGE 

There is a great difference in the manner in which human 
speech can be used. The most noticeable difference arises in the 
organic or figurative use of language, which only hints at living 
consciousness and represents its workings in picturesqiie ways, 
as opposed to the literal or positive categorical use of language, 
which ignores living consciousness and definitely encases only 
products of the thinking consciousness in dictionary terms. Lan- 
guage which follows living consciousness pursues a naturall}- 
organic logic of common sense and native reason, while language 
which deals only with the thinking consciousness proceeds in 
syllogistic and other byways to the natural highway of sense and 
reason. As language leads thought over the highway or byways 
of logic, so does it evolve or develop the intellect in natural or 
artificial ways — in organic or in categorical ways. ■ 

The categorically enlightened but organically perverted 
intellect of the college-bred mind exerts an evil influence on 
man's natural powers of forming naturally sensible and reason- 
able judgments with regard to social requirements. All its efforts 
at truth-telling result only in a multiplication of opinions; and 
this multiplication produces myriads of social side-pullers with 
legislative and judicial ambition, bent upon forcing human nature 
to proceed through the letter-of-the-law systems. 

The positive use of language, which produces and multiplies 
pronounced opinions, also increases the tendencies to side-pulling, 

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decentralization and disorganization within the body poHtic. It 
causes the invasion of society by loud-thinking intellectuals in 
the field of politics, law, religion, philosophy, etc., who would 
remodel human nature and improve society according to their 
opinions. These loud-thinking intellectuals labor in the way of 
establishing all sorts of so-called ideal but really irrational sys- 
tems for the regulation of social life. 

THE PARASITIC CHARACTER OF SOCIAL FUNCTIONARIES 

As intellectual development comes to take a stronger and 
stronger hold on social life, so multiplies the system-work in 
civilization, as also the need of employing functionaries to attend 
to these systems. The functionaries so employed are largely of 
a parasitic character; they do work which would not be needed 
in a well-organized society, and in doings this work they not only 
disturb but they prey upon the organic economy. Swarms of 
bureaucratic parasites, who invade civilization, pose as regula- 
tors of disorders by irrational opinions provoked. Thus, the 
non-organic, systematic, grammatical use of language, which 
produces erring thinkers, introduces parasitic invasion of the 
body politic, and destroys the work of civilization, the growth of 
which organic language has promoted. 

If the categorical perversion of the intellect, by educational 
measures, is not brought to an end, nation-builders will find them- 
selves slaving to feed social parasites, in the near future again 
as in all the historic past. 

Organic intellectuality has always been recognized and per- 
sonified as a social temple-builder, an agathodaemon, a Holy 
Ghost; while categorical types of intellectuality have been de- 
picted as hordes of fallen angels, as kakodaemons, evil genii, etc. 

Organic intellectuality, it was said, stimulated the organic 
growth of human society by dividing the benefits resulting from 
social growth equitably, fairly, reciprocally, among- social con- 
stituents. 

Categorical intellectuality is ambitious to improve the good 
work of organic intellectuality; it talks in the way of high 
promises about peace and plenty, while its work destroys the 
organic growth of the human intellect and of human society by 
substituting' systematic for organic procedures of thought and 
act — procedures which benefit none but bureaucratic and other 
parasites. 

The way to social conditions of Hell is paved with the good 
intentions of categorically perverted intellects. 

All the intellect-controlling languages now spoken are of an 

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alphabetical, extra-analytic type; they are indeed effective means 
to the end of doing special detail-work, but they have no truly 
organic or unifying pov^ers; hence the diversity of opinion regard- 
ing the requirements of civilized life, regarding right and wrong, 
good and evil, etc. 

While the faulty use of language controls the intellectual 
powers and disturbs the natural working order of mind, while 
hollow talk of categorically excavated minds prevails in the busi- 
ness of manufacturing, dealing in and storing up ready-made 
opinions, fatal system-work will prevail in civilization over all 
truly organic endeavor, and the masses of the people will be forced 
to shed sweat and blood for the purpose of feeding and pleasing 
the myriads of political, legal and financial parasites, who, con- 
sequent to the spread of sham intellectuality, invade the body 
politic and prey upon its substance. 

THE POWER NEEDED TO UNIFY OPINIONS 

Categorical intellectuality, with its peripatetic dictionary 
definitions, is efficient in developing special ability to know and 
to do, but it lacks organic and unifying powers. Our educators 
might easily supply these intellectual deficiencies of the age if 
they realized their own shortcomings and understood their busi- 
ness. Until our educators perfect themselves and the intellect- 
controlling use of language, it will in all probability be useless 
for loud thinkers to attempt to place facts into lights truer than 
the now prevailing opinions furnish. 

The exchange of opinions, categorically evolved in learned 
discussions, is holloM' talk, whether it takes place in the auditor- 
ium of the universit^^ in the halls of Congress, or in the meetings 
of the recently organized Commonwealth or Economic Clubs. All 
categorically enlightened intellects are excavated; all categorical 
talk is hollow; it leads the Thinking Ego about the workshop 
and storehouse of thought, but it does not give it power to enter 
into the workshop of nature and to study the workings of cause 
and consequence in the only way in which they can be studied. 
All learned discussions on social questions of right or wrong, of 
good or evil, are only methods of threshing intellectual straws 
into intellectual chaff. Never will grains of truth, with sprouting 
and growing powers, spring from learnedly enlightened intellects 
of the modern type. The talk of these intellects may duly or 
unduly diversify special knowing powers, but it cannot unify the 
powers of the specially active intellects in the only way in which 
special powers can be unified, i. e. the naturall}^ organic way of 
thinking, speaking and doing. This organic way must ever 

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remain inaccessible to learned minds which ignore the truly edu- 
cational or evangelic evolution of livi 
lizing pow^er in their way of thinking. 



cational or evangelic evolution of living consciousness as a civi- 



THE GOSPEL, OF RELATIVE TRUTH, 

which underlies the methods of public instruction, produces 
the prevailing unnatural ignorance of natural causation and the 
deplorable inability of learned minds to reason from cause to con- 
sequence. It virtually pushes fact-knowing, truth-telling and 
right-doing into the background and makes systematized lying 
with regard to cause and consequence the actual aim of intel- 
lectual endeavor. Of course it does not do this intentionally, but 
it does it actually. 

Relative truth in the way of thinking, lays the foundation 
for relativity in all social conditions, and that relativity, so 
founded, is of a fatal, inimical and deadly kind, a kind entirely 
different from the reciprocal relationship which prevails in the 
process of life, in the individual organism, and which should pre- 
vail in family life and organic society. 

While relative truth characterizes the work of modern 
thought, relative honesty will characterize the dealings between 
man and man. What truth is in intellectual development, that 
the dollar is in social development, namely, a standard of worth. 
If the accepted truth represents nothing better than the hollow- 
ness of prevailing opinion, then the obtainable dollar will repre- 
sent nothing better than the hollowness of vain endeavors in social 
life. Honest truth and honest money are organically reciprocal 
and not fatally related things. 

The almighty dollar is not altogether honest when relative 
truth, vested in opinions, rules the world; it is only relatively 
honest; it is honest from the point of view which the greater 
capitalist takes in robbing the lesser. It is honest from the point 
of view of foreign financiers, who are now scheming and pro- 
gramming to reduce our multi-millionaires to submission to their 
credit-system, but it will not appear to be so altogether honest 
when we look from our own national point of view into the pro- 
cedures employed. The people of the United States have yet to 
learn the lesson that honest truth and honest money must go 
hand in hand in intellectual and social development. If tainted 
truth is being made the circulating medium in intellectual life, 
if systematic lying is employed as a method of educating the pub- 
lic mind, then will the money — -the circulating medium of indus- 
trial and commercial activity — be tainted. When the current 
of public mentality and morality runs out of the channels of right 

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and reason into the byways of irrational opinions, then we can- 
not hope for a high-character use of money. 

Some of our learned thinkers seem on the verge of realizing" 
that there is something wrong in the present attitude of the public 
mind, of politicians and of the judiciary toward the leaders of our 
industrial development. Realizing this, they are making efforts 
to perfect their insight into existing facts; they are organizing 
so-called non-partisan clubs for the discussion of political ques- 
tions, ostensibly for the purpose of clarifying the public intellect, 
but really for the purpose of retaining their unholy hold on the 
opinion-making business and their power to lead the public mind 
from one delusive promise into another, in the tentative way in 
which intellectual perverts experiment in the afifairs of men. 

The intellectual perverts, who are most active in reform- 
legislation, make every effort to force the natural corporate 
growth of industrial development, now striving to proceed in 
accordance with the peaceful principles of organization true to 
life, backwards into the formerly prevailing fatal principles of 
undue competition and strife, which lead to deadly war. They 
imagine that the industrial leaders and trust-magnates, or so- 
called barons of industry, are in a fair way of re-establishing 
something like a medieval feudal system, in order to prey upon 
society. They so imagine because they cannot reason from cause 
to consequence ; they cannot draw reasonable conclusions from 
historic observations; they do not understand the principles of 
development and evolution; they jump at conclusions from one 
prejudicial opinion to another. By their hap-hazard pro and con 
talk they hope to establish the rule of right and reason, without 
knowing it. The hope in vain ; the ignorance which inspired it 
is unnatural. 

WHO SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? 

The intellectualized minds, in their unnatural ignorance and 
shortsightedness, do everything that can be done to establish the 
rule of wrong. In their efforts to legislate the national growth 
of industry — the trusts — out of existence, they force them into 
international expansion and under the control of the international 
credit-system, which no national jurisdiction can reach or dare 
interfere with. Thus they destroy the power of this country to 
deal with their own affairs, and they make this presumably free land 
a colony dependent on foreign financial skill ; they play directly 
into the hands of the initernational programmers, who labor in 
the cause of denationalization, in order to make all nations sub- 

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ject to their credit-systems. The denationalization-scheme now 
masquerading under the name of "the open door policy", and 
advancing by talk of free trade, tariff-reform, reciprocity, coali- 
tion, peaee-programs and other movements by systematic lying 
advanced, under pretense of caring for the good people, would 
put this favored country on a par with countries less favored and 
developed and all under the regime of the foreign money-mon- 
archs, who rule the Unseen Empire. 

The efforts of our categorically enlightened intellectuals 
.make for the re-establishment of the deplorable conditions which 
prevailed during the decline of the Roman Empire ; and worse, 
for as the world-wide ambition of our intellectual perverts exceeds 
that which ruled ancient Rome, so will its excesses establish condi- 
tions of virtual slavery, even more deplorable than were those 
under that regime. 

In the present status of intellectuality, no one man or body 
of men knows enough to rule even one nation as it should 
be ruled, much less all the nations of the earth or civilization at 
large. Subverting the rights of individual nations to any inter- 
national power is therefore error, and the gravest kind of error 
if that power be an international credit-system, a re-incarnation 
of the time-defamed God Mammon. 

Greed for money is a well recognized evil, but the greed for 
the world-wide extension of power on the part of perverted intel- 
lectuality is an unrecognized evil of greater force than money- 
mania. , 

Our intellectuals may be specially great systematizers, but 
organizers they are not. 

As some intellectual perverts, under the inspiration of foreign 
financial programmers, cry for the open door policy, so do other 
intellectual perverts, inspired with some absentee God-ideas, 
make propaganda for the so-called christianizing of the earth, all 
to the effect of working up a death-struggle among humanity. All 
the present endeavors of our intellectualized thinkers to establish 
absentee standards of worth will entail fatal consequences. True 
and healthful standards of Light and Right must have living 
character, and this character must be an organic growth. Health- 
ful standards cannot be mechanically established things, sttch as 
intellectual instruction would make them. Intellectuals, such as 
are our positive thinkers, cannot even stimulate the natural growth 
of standards, while they fail to understand the organizing princi- 
ples active in nature, human nature and civilization. Intellectuality 
which fails to understand these principles is sham intellectualitv. 

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The more diversified its efforts and ambition, the more far-reach- 
ing the evil consequences of its work. 

Categorical intellects, such as all modern methods of educa- 
tion produce, are class-intellects. Class-intellects produce class- 
legislation; they either pit the masses against the stronger indi- 
viduals in national life or the strong individuals against the 
masses, and thus their work makes for fatal relationship, interne- 
cine strife and social destruction. 

The categorical intellect is the antipode of the living, organic 
knowing and doing power, which works in reciprocal ways, pro- 
ceeding by giving and taking equitably. The truly organic mind, 
following in the way of native reason, never imposes duties with- 
out according some adequate right and benefit in family and 
social life. In this respect, the natural workings of the mind pro- 
duce results quite dift'erent from those of the categorical intellect, 
which proceeds only to establish fatal systems of prejudice and 
privilege, by way of education and instruction. 

The trusts are not products of the categorical way of think- 
ing; they are not products of perverted intellects, such as is all 
anti-trust legislation; but they are rather a natural growth, 
resulting from the sensible conceptions of cause -and consequence 
and from the concentration of individual effort in industrial ways. 
The trust-system, while it remains independent of the interna- 
tional credit-system, opens the door to a truly organic- and reci- 
procal procedure between individual and nation, and makes it pos- 
•sible to harmonize individual effort with national welfare by profit- 
sharing. 

The ancient Etruskans depicted the influence of perverted 
intellectuality very effectively by ideograms showings the body of 
the social octopus fighting its own head and the head fighting the 
members of its own body, as also by ideograms illustrating the 
tendencies of social constituents to overreach each other; for 
instance, strong individuality trying to overreach the people, and 
the people seeking to overreach and destroy the individual 
strength and despoil it of its achievements. 

Individuality must ever do all special work in national life, 
but it must not do it to the detriment of the organic whole. The 
individual must attend to the business of providing bread for the 
million, as well as of attending to the welfare of commonwealth. 
This nation, as a whole, or its government, in whole or in part, 
can never carry along special business successfully; it cannot do 
industrial, commercial or banking work; but it can share in the 

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profits due to the growth of individual effort, and thus make the 
humbler or weaker constituents in social life profit by the success 
of the abler or stronger. 

The American public, by the hollow talk of delusive 
learning deceived, listens hopefully to the reform-talk of our 
intellectual perverts; it sympathizes readily with any and all of 
the alleged reform-movements which are now under congressional 
consideration, and most of which, if made factors in the social 
system, would gradually make for the destruction of the character 
of this republican government and the independence, welfare and 
prosperity of the people. 

Perverted intellectuality, now as ever, directs the sympathies 
of the public into opposition to its own best interests. Thus, the in- 
tellectual perverts and opmionated thinkers, who at present control 
the law-making and administrative functions in this civilization, 
are misleading the public sympathies, causing them to rejoice in 
the ever fatal elevation of the letter of opinion-made laws above 
the spirit of justice. They cause the public to rejoice in the injus- 
tice which, under the name of legal rights, is being done to some 
of the men who have built up America's industrial prosperity. 

Public sentiment, by learned leadership deluded, would now 
even sacrifice the authors of its own welfare to foreign financial 
greed, not realizing that such sacrifice would entail disaster to 
itself. 

Intellectual perverts have made the American people believe 
that the great wealth of some individuals, resulting from the con- 
centration of industrial activity, is a cause of evil. This cause of 
evil, however, exists as yet only in the perverted imagination and 
in the undue ambition of politicians and lawmakers, for, as a mat- 
ter of fact, the American people at present enjoy more favorable 
industrial conditions than do those of any other nation. The 
deluded public, by pulling down the great work produced by con- 
centrated energy in industrial endeavor, hope to destroy the 
money-evil, when, as a matter of fact, they only destroy their own 
chances of making rightful use of the money-power in this nation. 
The people, in destroying the representatives of domestic talent 
ill finance and economics, destroy the national bulwarks of their 
own prosperity and lay themselves open to the absolute control 
of their national affairs by foreign money-monarchs. 

Of course the people who sympathize with the present regime 
of legal and political opinions mean well ; they are convinced that 
they are on the right track of improving human nature and social 
conditions, and of choking the life out of the alleged money-evil. 
Yet they are largely indebted to the representatives of this alleged 
evil for the present high water-mark of prosperity, which exceeds 

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all previous historic records. They do not realize that the sacri- 
fice of domestic financiers and of the heads of the great incor- 
porated industries to the at this time prevailing- opinion must 
react unhappily upon their own welfare. They do not realize 
that this sacrifice of domestic wealth only feeds and stimulates 
the greater hereditary greed of foreign money-maniacs, who are 
now waging an underhand war against the centres of our domes- 
tic wealth. The people overlook the fact that these centres are 
the bulwarks of national prosperity, and that their reduction must 
entail the absolute dependence of this country on a foreign credit- 
making power, which is now scheming and programming to make 
itself the one almighty government on earth. 

The public who, laboring under the influence of delusive 
opinions, are now condemning the Amei^ican trust-magnates, are 
inadvertently placing themselves directly under the regime of Mam- 
mon's bloodless system of finance and credit. The semi-divine 
Mammon is unlike our trust-magnates, inasmuch as he has no 
sympath}' with human feelings and no particular national interests. 
He does not waste his breath nor rack his brain, as do the Carne- 
gies, Rockefellers, and other trust-magnates, in the possibly mis- 
taken endeavor of doing the world some good by the endowing 
of educational institutions and other public-spirited efirorts. Mam- 
man says : "This I consider right, and all the world must so con- 
sider it or sufi^er the consequences of damnation — of my condem- 
nation." 

MODERN SCRIBES AND PHARISEES 

The admirers of relative truth, of opinionated justice, of judi- 
cial honesty, of discreet morality, etc., have a natural tendency 
to enjoy legal aggressions and outrages. They feel that the 
undoing of some factors in society will somehow result in special 
benefit to themselves. They never realize that the unreasonable 
use of legislative and administrative power in civilization event- 
ually reaches any and all factors in it, as it continues its systematic 
procedures against organic society, against family and social life. 

The Scribes, who write in the cause of relative truth, and the 
Pharisees, who applaud the effects of judicial interference in 
civic rights, are by no means exempt from the suft'ering-s imposed 
by the rule of Mammon or of money, which they themselves set 
afloat or support and in the successful career of which they rejoice. 
The pharisaic tendencies in the public mind, which cause even our 
best people to do homage to appearances and to aid and abet the 
aggressive policy of the money-monarchs, never cause them to 
think that the destroying angels of homes and of nations have no 
love for make-believes. 

LXXVI 



; Some of our American newspaper men and financiers have 
already learned, to their sorrow, that Alammon marches onward, 
regardless of the fate of either friend or enemy. When the friend 
has done his work, the friend may go, and keep out -of the net of 
the weaving spider if he can. 

The God Mammon aims solely to perfect his system. Any- 
thing in the way of his aim to Him is rubbish, which must be 
removed, be it Lords or Senators, national feelings or creeds. 

The writers who, in their self-interest, appeal to the evil pas- 
sions of the people, their envious dispositions and their inclination 
to pull down anything that rises above their own level, may event- 
ually find that they have supported a movement which will not 
right itself and which never again can be righted by any national 
effort. They may learn too late that the destruction of national 
bulwarks, such as the House of Lords in England and the Senate 
in our own country have been heretofore, will entail disastrous 
consequences to the people. When the head is severed from the 
body politic, the body is helpless. 

The people of England, as well as the people of America, are 
rejoicing in the prospect of seeing the political and social heads 
cut ofif their conservative government. But the people who so 
rejoice may have a flood of tears coming", and also some gnashing 
of teeth. , 

As the people of England, who have always rejoiced in the 
aggressive policy of their government, are about to be disciplined 
by the monarchs of the Unseen Empire, so may the people of 
America, who are now endorsing the same aggressive policy at 
home and all sorts of judicial extravagances, find that the discipli- 
nary work of finance extends to their own ranks with even greater 
force than to the victims now on the rack. "Tolerate no rule of 
wrong, even for a moment, for it mav reach vou", is the gist of 
an Asiatic proverb, which it may be well to remember. 

If the people tolerate, the passing of special laws, designed 
against special interests not particularly their own, they will pro- 
bably find that they have opened the door to legislative procedures, 
which will destroy civic rights, national independence and welfare. 

If the people cannot realize that the multiplication of special 
legislative measures in civilization, directing itself against any 
one factor, directs itself against the welfare of the whole and is 
therefore iniquitous; if thev cannot realize that in point of special 
iniquity the present construction of the so-called Sherman Act 
exceeds anything on record as enacted in the halls of any legisla- 
tive Narrenberg; if they will sympathize with the outrage of 
making criminals of the heads of national industries, in accordance 
with a law, by aggressive opinions inspired and carried along by 

Lxxvn 



an iniquitous program, then they deserve no better fate than 
awaits them under the rule of the absentee money-monarchs of 
the Unseen Empire. The men who will destroy their own bulwark 
of safety, the men who will bite the hand that feeds them, the men 
who do not know the mainstays of their own welfare, who will 
not put their shoulder to the wheel to save the national strength 
which industrial trusts could give this country if they were pro- 
perly licensed and made to yield their surplus profit to state and 
national treasuries, are not fitted to enjoy the voting privileges 
in a democratic commonwealth. 

If it is true that the mass of the American voters occupy intel- 
lectually as low a stage as the jelly-fish does physically, if it is 
true that more liberty has been accorded them than their mental 
and moral powers can successfully apply in sustaining the civiliz- 
ing purpose, if it is true that this liberty to do the right thing in 
advancing the cause of civilization amounts only to giving license 
to do wrong, then we had better hail the advent of the foreign 
God Mammon, who says that nothing better can be done for this 
country than to feed, fatten and butcher the American hog. 

If the majority of the American people are really so unreason- 
able us to finally endorse the present rule of irrational opinion, 
aiming to destroy the strength which concentration of energy has 
given to American industry, if they are reaMy so unreasonable as 
to seek the destruction of the causes of their prosperity rather 
than the permanent incorporation of these causes in the body 
organic, then our legal and judicial butchers may be properly pre- 
paring the Augean Stables for coming events. 

The world's money-monarchs have little chance, if inclina- 
tion, to better the social conditions of unreasonable people. If the 
people will act unwisely in regulating their afl^airs, the unseen 
hand of foreign money-sense must take hold of public afifairs, to 
restrict by specially minute legislation the evil effects which the 
multiplication of unreasonable opinions produce in civilized life. 

If we knew the facts, we might find that much of the present 
mania for special legislation in this country is inspired by foreign 
money-interests. The money-sense of the semi-divine Mammon 
has a way of stepping in with legal measures, to check the excesses 
of aggressive opinions and evil passions which, owing to the lack 
of true mentality and morality, seek to control civilization . 

Much special work is done well in modern civilization, but 
is the great work of civilization ever well done? Money-sense may 
do its own business in a profitable way, but can it do the wo,rk of 
civilization as it should, be, de^ne? ,- i,!' ;- 

, LXXVIII ;,'.'; 



The weaving spiders in social life do their program-work 
through the categorically excavated intellects, which hold to the 
relativity of knowledge and of conditions. If the people will ac- 
cept the gospel of relative truth and of the relatively honest dol- 
lar, preached by the intellectual perverts and parasites, then they 
will have to accept the weaving spiders in social life as the legiti- 
, mate rulers of civilization. 

Now must the American people choose between improving 
their own knowing and doing powers or preparing themselves to 
submit to the regime of the God Mammon. If the people cannot 
bring themselves to do their own thinking with due discernment, 
they must expect that those who think for them and formulate 
their creed of opinion will also attempt to direct and control their 
energies. He who cannot do his own thinking must be prepared 
to slave for those who think for him. If reason is non est in a 
land ruled by a majority of opinions, in a land where quantity 
rules quality, then money-sense must step in to save the drifting 
ship of state from wrecking itself on the rocks of popular prejudice 
and delusion. 

The world-wide financial genius, who is now rising to again 
resume control of the world's industrial affairs, would probably 
content itself with attending to its own business if the people 
would attend in reasonable ways to their own local, domestic and 
national affairs; but if the people do not so attend, then the lesser 
financial talent will speedily feel itself called upon to attend to 
public business, and it will do this by special legislation and admin- 
istrative rigor, and not by moral persuasion. 

If the Anglo-Saxon race, and especially its American branch, 
cannot bring itself to understand the fact that great evils and 
much suffering- in modern life originate in errors of thought, by 
education disseminated, then it will not be able to hold its advanced 
position in civilization. If the intellectual leaders in our civiliza- 
tion cannot realize that both Honest Truth and Honest Money 
are indispensable requirements to the healthful intellectual, indus- 
trial and national growth of civilized life, then their leadership 
will not be lastingly successful. 

If there is error anywhere in the educational work which 
prepares the intellectual powers of leaders and people for the work 
of civilization, then that error should now be eliminated. 

If the scientific methods of looking at the outside of the work- 
shop of nature and guessing at the causes of life and of death 
within, is not the best way of arriving at a knowledge of the facts 
necessary for civilized man to know, then the shortcomings of 
the scientific way of knowing nature and life's requirements 
should be exposed, and a better way of obtaining thorough know- 

LXXIX 



Jedge of Fact should be found and prepared by sufficient explana- 
tion. 

If Christian Faith has fallen in the pitfall which categorical 
■definitions dig in the sensible and reasonable ways of thinking 
.about Fact, and if it has substituted visionary God-ideas for the 
■organically working God-consciousness, then this faith, if it has 
'fitness of survival and is to live, should be regenerated, in accor- 
dance with the original meaning of the accepted text-book of our 
'faith — the Bible. If the current translations of the Bible-work 
are misconceptions of the original work and perversions of the 
•original Thoughts and Intent, which do not appeal to sense and 
reason, but which rather make religious faith appear ridiculous, 
then the causes of the errors in the translations should be ex- 
plained and the original meaning restored. 

If there is systematic lying anywhere in civilization besides 
in the work of science and theology, it should be brought to an 
end by full and fair exposition of fact and by evolution of 
living standards of Light and Right in the twentieth century 
intellect. 

If nature is a process, in which the causes of life and of death 
are imperceptibly active, nature should be so represented, through 
the channels of education, to all the world. 

If the now conventional way of looking at nature through 
the categorical ideas of matter, force, time, space, etc., and of 
thinking syllogistically about these ideas, does not lead to rational 
conceptions of natural causation ,then the errors and shortcomings 
of this conventional way of obtaining- and disseminating alleged 
knowledge of Fact should be exposed, and the true raw material 
of knowledge and the true way of its intellectual elaboration 
rshould be put in evidence. 

If modern morality is unnaturally suspended from convention- 
ally established categorical ideas of truth, virtue and justice, 
which are not true to the organic causes of civilized life and its 
requirements, if the public conscience is thereby made an artifice, 
depending on opinions instead of standing on its natural footing 
of self-consciousness, then the conventional ideas should undergo 
.inspection and correction. 

Intellectual forces, prepared in the conventional ways of edu- 
'cation, have taken an aggressive hold in the affairs of modern 
■ civilization. Common sense and native reason are being" pushed 
into the background by the aggressive opinions generated in intel- 
■Jectualized minds. 

If natural intelligence must take a back seat and if intellect- 
uality is to continue its rule, then the intellect should be purged 

LXXX 



of its errors and made aware of its shortcomings, before its 
destructive work in civilization becomes irreparable. 

If the letter of opinion-made law is to be a ruling power in 
civilization, let us make sure that there is nothing Satanic, diabolic 
or devilish in the errors and shortcomings 'of the opinions which 
formulated the written law. Let us not do as historic civilizations 
have but too often done, i. e., go unawares under the regime of 
legal and judicial methods, which are criminally faulty in their 
conception. Any judgment which destroys the naturally founded 
order of the mind or the healthful growth of civilization is tainted 
with criminal tendencies, for when converted into a law and en- 
forced as a standard of right it disturbs the working order of 
organic life; it works injury to this or that efficient constituent 
of organic society, and thereby becomes a crime against humanity. 

Opinion-made laws have been known as special laws and have 
been recognized as being tainted with criminal tendencies, because 
they have general and particular systematic bearings, which are 
not true to the organic order of life, but, as a matter of fact, are 
so far from true that they often disturb and destroy it. Opinion- 
made laws, when invariably and rigorously enforced, become the 
destroying angels of society. They are framed with intent to 
save society from wrong-doers, but they are the products of the 
mechanical workings of thought; they have no living or life- 
sustaining character; they have no upbuilding power, they can 
only act restrictively and in pulling-down ways; they are, like 
hammer and tongs, good only to do deadly work with. 

Opinion-made laws, by reason of their deadly tendencies, 
have but too often become instruments of destruction in the hands 
of Folly and Greed. They have disturbed, destroyed and under- 
mined the organic order in even the greatest historic civilizations. 
When the men who wield legal, judicial and administrative power 
fail to understand the reciprocal relationship of individual to 
nation, they cannot make just, right and reasonable use of special 
laws. They enforce the law, in violation and defiance of justice, 
and thereby they bring ruin upon civilization. Laws, unjustly 
enforced, demoralize the public mind, destroy common sense and 
native reason , conscience and goodwill, and thereby brutalize 
human nature. 

If the people understood the original meaning of the Bible- 
text, they would know that in the Old Testament the opinionated 
genii in education and jurisprudence have been depicted as the 
perverters of the civilizing purpose; and they would also know 
that the New Testament describes the opinion-ridden mind as 
"devil-possessed" in one way or another, daemoniacal, diabolic or 
Satanic, that is, acquired in the ways of self-sufficient thought, 

LXXXI 



used in the way of contradictory extravagance and with time- 
defying persistence. 

Our modern thinkers have placed the law-making business 
upon the same faulty foundation upon which stood the ancient 
Roman law, which made it impossible for the masses of the peo- 
ple to lawfull}^ exist, and which, when enforced, caused the event- 
ual collapse of the whole civilization. 

The Christian lawmakers in the middle ages have shown 
what perverted intellects can do in the way of making criminal 
laws for the government of the people. Medieval' law for cen- 
turies condemned the best of the people to torture and death to 
please the opinionated and daemonized intellects, who controlled 
civilization. The law-makers and the judges were the real wrong- 
doers and the people were the sufiferers. Of course the people 
imagined that the law was God-given and therefore entitled to 
respect, when, in fact, it was born of the devilish tendencies in 
the human mind. 

It may be well for us to look at the modern system of law- 
making and see whether it has similar defects . It is just pos- 
sible that intellectual perverts are again monopolizing the law- 
making business, robbing people of their civic rights, putting 
new burdens upon the productive energies in civilization and 
demoralizing- the public conscience, until sense of justice succumbs 
to the spirit of hatefulness. 

The people imagine that their intellectual and political lead- 
ers are bent upon making laws which will sustain the welfare 
of civilization, but in so imagining, they may err. No sane mind 
would wish to so use the power of its opinions as to manufacture 
criminals, yet the devilish tendencies in opinion-possessed minds 
are making every effort to treat as criminals those who dififer from 
them in point of partisan and opinion-made laws. 

The talk that the people are being robbed by the violation 
of the Sherman Act or by alleged land-frauds is credited by 
the mass of the people, because it comes from high and respected 
authority; but, as a matter of fact, a thorough investigation of 
the question will show that the Act is in error conceived, and that 
its rigorous enforcement is as devilish and destructive to civilized 
welfare as ever was such enforcement of the letter of any opinion- 
made law in ancient Rome or medieval days. 

The growth of this civilization made the concentration of 
energy in industrial channels a necessity. The industries had to 
expand to suppl}^ the requirements of an expanding civilization. 
The individuals then engaged in industrial pursuits had to extend 
their working power by methods of incorporation or corporate 
organization. The governments of all the States in the Union 

LXXXII 



gave unrestricted license or charters to industrial, commercial 
and transportation corporations. Some of these corporations 
succeeded well and grew into extraordinarily profitable enter- 
prises. Some envious or visionary opinion-makers advanced the 
idea that the good people suffered injury by the growth of incor- 
porated enterprise. To check this real or imaginary injury, the 
Sherman Act was passed, as a piece of counteractive and special 
legislation which no right-minded man should have endorsed. If 
the government or the people had been too generous in giving 
unrestricted charter to incorporated enterprises, they should have 
thought of correcting this error rather by compromise than by 
force of counteractive legislation. To sanction such counteractive 
legislation is much like sanctioning the use of violence in oppo- 
sition to scabs by labor-union men. Two wrongs do not make 
a right, and both wrongs should be condemned. Be that as it 
may in the case of the Sherman Act. If this Act had been used 
in a timely way to counteract real or imaginary evils, grown out 
of folly or legislative generosity, the measure had done its work 
by fair means or foul when it brought the great trust-enterprises 
into readiness to relinquish undue advantage and inordinate profit- 
making. To push the law beyond this point of efficiency seems 
to be as much of a crime as the throwing of brickbats by union- 
labor into street-cars, or the dynamiting of buildings belonging 
to enemies of the labor-union party. 

The criminal application of the Sherman Act savors of^crime 
against civilization and humanity, against commonwealth and civi- 
lization; it is a most daring piece of program - work, by Philis- 
tine greed inspired and by domestic folly sustained. The word 
"Philistine" is here used in its original scriptural meaning, which 
is very unlike any definition found in dictionaries. If the original 
meaning of the stories of Samson and Delilah were known, the 
program-work, of which the Sherman Act is an ominous feature, 
could not progress as it does. The errors ,which have so often 
brought disturbance and ruin upon growing civilization, could -not 
repeat themselves if the public mind understood the scriptural 
formulas which represent the workings of these errors. It is not 
the purpose of these pages to throw more light upon this subject 
or to do anything which might lead to the pulling of even one prop 
from beneath the Temple of Living Stones. It is not within this 
purpose to excuse or accuse any individual. Individuals are. what 
nature, educators and dominant systems make them; they are 
more or less right; at least their errors need not be considered. 
The system needs every attention; it corrupts the individual; it 
inflicts undue suffering upon the people. 

LXXXIII 



The system-work needs investigation and correction. All 
opinion-made laws savor more or less of injustice. If folly, greed, 
ill-will or other perverted powers of mind enforce the letter of 
the law, then such enforcement is criminal. If the public had 
fully evolved discerning powers, they would readily see why the 
excessive use of special leg^islation results in their own undoing'. 
The proverbial saying: "Summum jus, summa injuria" has a mean- 
ing which the voters of the United States should be made to under- 
stand. 

The pinch-heads who arg'ue that the resources of the country 
must remain undeveloped, because the existing law does not per- 
mit of their development, are not thinking in the ways of sense 
and reason; and they who imagine that the men who attempted 
the development of these resources are criminals in the eyes of 
the law are looking upon their interpretation of the opinion-made 
law as all-sufficient and infallible; in so looking, they give 
evidence of intellectual perversion; and in arguing that this vio- 
lation of the law should be rigorously prosecuted, with intent to 
inflict criminal punishment, they show the devilish tendencies of 
their minds. The perverted intellect sanctifies the work of opin- 
ions and looks upon the letter of the thought-made law as an 
inviolable dictate of right. 

The resources of this country belong first to the now living 
race and thereafter to coming races . If the immediate develop- 
ment of these resources is an advantage to the living race, the 
man who obstructs this development is out of order, and any law 
which denies the right of such development should be repealed. 
Any pinch-head who asserts that the men who are willing to em- 
ploy their energies and risk their money in the development of 
the country's resources are criminals, because they violate this 
or that thought-made law, is simply a nuisance if not an eneni}" 
to social welfare. The workers in productive industries are not 
too prosperous at present : they support the regime of folly and 
greed which places damnable burdens vipon their backs, and makes 
them work overtime for half-pay to support broods of non-pro- 
ductive and wasteful parasites. Any development of the country's 
resources relieves the weight of the burden-bearers in social life. 
Any special law which prevents the development of these indus- 
tries places additional straws on the back of the already over- 
loaded camel. If the brawn and muscle of the country ever come ' 
to their senses, the parasites and pinch-heads will come to grief. 

As the modern intellect is theologically perverted and incom- 
peteni; to tell the truth about the God-consciousness, so is it 
equally perverted in its legal and judicial endeavors, and so is it 



equally incompetent to minister to the requirements of civilized 
life or to sustain its order by legislation. 

In order to do civilizing w^ork successfully, the intellectualized 
mind must learn to do justice to both the individual and the State 
in any and all legal procedures, and in order to so do justice, it 
must first learn something about reciprocal relationship, which 
is of vital importance and which it does not know, and it must 
at the same time unlearn much about categorical relationship, 
which is visionary, delusive and destructive to life in its order. 

In fact, at the present stage of mentality, few thinkers are 
capable of realizing that all laws must do justice to both the indi- 
vidual and the State, and that laws which disparage the interests 
of either the one or the other are to be condemned as special laws, 
having criminal character. The law-making business should not 
remain in the hands of intellectual perverts, partisan politicians 
or bureaucratic and other parasites. In fact, if the present law- 
makings craze does not meet with speedy and effective correction,, 
the work of the nation-builders in this republic will be destroyed 
by parasitic aggressions. 

Think of a lot of partisan politicians, sitting as a law-making 
body to control industrial development, fighting for partisan inter- 
ests , largely ignorant and certainly unmindful of the requirements- 
of the people, overcharged with all sorts of opinions of what should 
be and what should not be ,but having no thorough knowledge 
of an}' subject under discussion! 

Think of these partisan politicians endeavoring to block the 
best way of feeding, clothing and housing the millions just be- 
cause this best of economic ways has proven too profitable to- 
some of the industrial pathfinders ! 

Why not check the alleged undue profit-making of industrials,, 
by making the people profit-sharers, and leave the most economic 
way of providing necessities for the million open to the natural' 
procedures of evolution, thereby enabling the producers of wealth 
to keep pace with the growth of civilization and its requirements? 

Why not give the actual wealth-producers a chance to rid 
themselves and the nation of some of the parasites of folly and 
greed? 

Why permit partisan politicians to carry on a senseless and 
unreasonable war of words for opinion's sake, at public expense,, 
and to the disturbance and demoralization of the enterprises which 
supply the nation's necessities? 

Why increase the army of bureaucratic parasites to carry out 
the experiments of folly and the policy of greed? 

LXXXV 



Can a partisan government, such as ours, ever successfully 
attend to any business in which special knov^^ledge and ability 
are required? 

Can a government without a permanent head, by conflicting 
interests controlled and disturbed, do permanent business as suc- 
cessfully as it should be done? 

Are our politicians patriots or are they parasites? 

They are patriots if they work for the best interests of the 
people. They are parasites if they work for the perpetuation of 
power in their party. 

Do not all politicians work for party-interest rather than for 
commonwealth ? Do any of them know the best interests of 
commonwealth in any better ways than those traversed by con- 
tradictory opinions? Do they not all talk to please the public, for 
the purpose of sustaining and gaining party-power? Do the prac- 
tical and professional politicians know the best interests of the 
country any better than do the ignorant people? Do not all labor 
under the same delusions? Could a politician succeed if he told the 
truth? Would the people care to hear it? Do'nt the people want 
to hear something more favorable to their interests than the truth, 
something that promises more than is due them, something in 
the way of pulling down the great in order to aid the small? Are 
side-pulling politicians not tearers-down rather than builders-up? 
Are they not parasites rather than patriots? 

Think of allowing parasites to make the laws to govern the 
producers ! 

If the English-speaking people wish to retain their predomi- 
nance as civilizers, they will probably have to change their pres- 
ent course of advance. If the prosperity of these United States 
and their healthful growth as a nation is to continue, it will pro- 
bably be necessary for the people to unite in two great organic 
efiforts for the purpose of making honest money and honest truth 
the circulating mediums in industrial and intellectual endeavor. 

First of all, the educational system should be re-organized, in 
order to give the people honest truth as a circulating medium in 
intellectual development, instead of the now prevailing opinions 
and relative truths, for without honest truth the nations cannot 
secure honest money. In the second place, the trust-system should 
be extended by merging domestic capital and labor engaged in 
agricultural and productive industries, into one great trust, to feed 
and clothe the millions on a truly economic basis, and this trust 
should operate, under restrictive charters, on profit-sharing princi- 
ples with state and nation, in order to check the greed for the dollar 
and, in fact, make undue profit-making impossible. 

XXXXVI 



If the industrial development of this country is not to be 
wrecked by partisan politicians, opinionated law-makers and para- 
sitic invasion, it will be necessary for the voters of this country, 
who are engaged in productive industries, to organize themselves, 
from the day-laborer to the multi-millionaires who represent the 
capital invested in trusts, for the purpose of giving this country 
an actually honest dollar, fair facilities to feed the millions and 
a national credit-foundation. 

The present talk of honesty is hollow, or at least it is a rela- 
tive conception of honesty, as is the scientific conception of truth. 

Productive labor and capital, that is, labor and capital directly 
engaged in industrial work, now support the entire wasteful 
superstructure of civilization, the educational, legal , political and 
financial system-work. The greater part of a dollar's worth of 
labor performed goes toward paying the expenses of folly and 
greed. The wage-worker actually never gets more than a small 
percentage of the value of his work, hence the dollar which he 
has earned is not honestlj^ paid. Undue taxation uses up a little 
of it and the wasteful system-work, by folly and greed estab- 
lished, consumes most of it. 

The hundred millions of this nation must be fed, clothed and 
housed to best advantage. The labor which does the work of 
feeding, clothing and housing them must not be wasted through 
injudicious management of national afifairs nor in maintaining 
parasitic system-work; and above all, legal and political talent 
must not be permitted to interfere with industrial afifairs, which 
feed the millions. The parasite must .not impose hardships on 
the producer, by, either legislation or administration or otherwise. 
Legal and political talent is never competent to manage industrial 
affairs successfully. 

LAW AND LEADERS 

Life is a product of organic causation and it has organic 
requirements ; it can only exist while organic powers of mind 
control it and minister to its requirements. Civilized life, like 
individual life, is of organic character and not merely a systematic 
thing or machine — not the merely mechanical work of thought, 
but only organically evolved powers of the intellect can minister 
to its requirements. Systematizing intellects cannot serve and 
sustain the order of life in civilization. They can functionate as 
tissue-builders, but they cannot officiate successfully as controlling 
powers of civilized life; when they attempt such control they 
disturb and even destroy the order of life in all its phases. 

Historic civilizations have often gone to destruction because 
they were subjected to control of systematizing intellects. 

LXXXVII 



If religious faith is reduced to a thing of system by intellec- 
tual reflections then it becomes a deadly, usually superstitious, 
force in civilization. 

If the work of education becomes a mere matter of system, 
then it loses its virtue as a civilizing power. Systematic instruc- 
tion can cram ready-made ideas into the mind, but it cannot 
evolve the elementary powers of reasoning, discerning and doing, 
so as to enable the intellectualized mind to make vitally true use 
of its ideas and faculties of life. 

If legislation and legal procedures, under intellectual influ- 
ence, become entirely things of system, then they lose the char- 
acter of justice and destroy it in the individual, thereby becoming 
destroyers of human character and of civilization. 

Law and order have their natural reason for being in the 
organic workings and requirements of life. These working's and 
requirements undergo vital changes, with which thought and its 
system-work must not interfere. The causes of these changes 
should be understood by the intellectuals who undertake to con- 
trol the educational, law-making and judicial business; if not 
understood, fatal errors will occur. Thought-made, word-fixed 
laws, systematically applied to civilized life, always have disturbed 
and eventually destroyed the organic order of family and national 
life, and they will always do it. Laws, systematically used, are 
unnaturall}^ used, and so used they cannot sustain life, which is 
a product of natural order — of natural procedures. 

Law must have its foundation in the fuU)^ evolved knowledge 
and doing powers of life, mind and thought. Half-baked, imper- 
fect knowledge, such as are all opinions, is not entitled to be con- 
sidered as the embodiment of life-sustaining truth. 

The fully evolved knowing and doing powers must comprise, 
not only unquestionably true knowledg'e of the organic causes 
and procedures in the process of existence which create and sus- 
tain the order of life, but they must include the ability of making 
life-sustaining use of thought and language and of the free- 
agency doing powers. 

To educational!}' evolve a thorough knowledge of natural 
causation is not sufificient to make civilization a success by virtue 
of intellectual leadership; it is necessary to discipline the intel- 
lectualized mind, so as to evolve in it the ability to make due and 
timely use of its knowledge. 

Truth, virtue and justice in the process of living are very 
different powers from those conceptions which assume these 
names in the way of thinking. The mind which presumes to regu- 
late or control the work of civilization must tmderstand the why 
and how of this difference; it must understand the connection 

LXXXVIII 



and reciprocal interaction of tlie living powers and of the thinking 
faculties. 

There is no difficulty in the way of evolving this indispens- 
able understanding except the lack of proper and efficient rheto- 
rical means. The modern dictionary definitions will not serve 
the purpose. Their power does not reach into the organic work- 
ings of life, mind and thought. The methods of definition used 
in so-called sacred writings do extend into the organically living 
consciousness, but these methods, however simple, are not under- 
stood by modern thinkers. Modern thinkers are nothing better 
than opinion-mongers; they only deal in opinions when they 
attempt to discuss the working of anything that stands connected 
with oreanic causes. 



' fe' 



Opinions of truth, virtue and justice are not the proper 
foundation upon which to build legal systems. Opinions are very 
imperfect forms of knowledge, and when they are given control 
of civilization their imperfections result in violations of the order 
of life. 

The opinionated minds which assume law-making authority 
are usually so tinged with criminal tendencies that they will never 
stop for any reasonable consideration of fact, but push onward in 
the manufacture of criminals who violate the letter of the law, 
even unto the ultimate destruction of civilization. 

How and why opinion-made laws destroy the organic work- 
ings of civilization is fully explained in the sacred writings of 
the great cults, and should not need an}- additional explanation 
by any modern thinker. But it is bound to get this explanation 
again, as it often did in former ages during the rise of mental 
activity. And if this explanation comes too late, then its correc- 
tive effort will be ineffectual and the inevitable destruction will 
be precipitated. 

Opinions are uncertain forms of knowledge, and in part really 
products of unnatural ignorance. If opinionated minds insist on 
the control of the law-making business, they really are possessed 
by criminal folly. 

Opinion-made laws have but too often made legislative anarchy 
the ruling power in civilization, and imposed horrible inflictions 
upon the people. 

Think of ancient Rome and the middle ages ! 

The opinionated law-makers in past civilizations have done 
much more criminal work than ever did the law-breakers. They 
have established regimes of legislative anarchy and perpetuated 
them for centuries, to the ultimate destruction of nations and 

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races. Therefore, do not hold the opinion-made laws all holy — 
hold them in abhorrence. 

The legal ideas of the modern jurists are no more holy, 
healthful, life-sustaining, than were the God-ideas of medieval 
bigots. Intellectual perverts usually attach superstitious value to 
their ideas and demand undue reverence for them . 

No nation can afford to permit intellectualized minds to add 
to or to take away from the scripturally founded law. Thought- 
made laws are holy and health-sustaining only when they are 
founded on a fully and fairly evolved organic self-consciousness, 
intellect and free-agency character . That evolution implies' a 
thorough knowledge of the organizing causes in nature and human 
life, and no modern thinker can claim any such knowledge, nor 
any competent free-agency power. 

All modern thinkers are unnaturally ignorant of natural 
causation. Therefore the people had better trust to religious be- 
lief than to alleged knowledge. 

The present theological ignorance of testamentary formulas, 
which deal with right-thinking, right-speaking and right-doing, 
may be wiped away in a day, and theologians may suddenly step 
into the front rank of recognized fact-knowers and truth-tellers. 

Scientific ignorance of natural causation is much more difficult 
to correct than is theological ignorance, which now makes reli- 
gious faith ridiculous. The modern scientist is usually positive 
that he is on the right track of getting to know all that is to be 
known, and therefore he is but too often invincibly ignorant. The 
theologian ,on the contrary, is in doubt as to his interpretations 
of the Bible-work, and therefore his palpable errors may be cor- 
rected. Some philologist may tumble to such now unknown dif- 
ferences in language as exist between Sanskrit and Prakrit, and 
between defi>nitions formed in accordance with the natural law 
of Doing and definitions formed in accordance with the categori- 
cal conception of Being. If this should occur, we would quickly 
learn the now unknown truth embodied in the Bible-work. 

Whenever the original meaning of testamentary and other 
sacred writings becomes known to theologians and to the people, 
there will be a speedy ending of the business of making opinions 
and special legislation ruling powers in modern civilization. 

UNNATURAL IGNORANCE 

The modern scientist misrepresents the process of existence, 
nature and natural causation by his word-knowledge, opinions, 
theories, hypotheses, ologies and isms, etc.; he does not repre- 

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sent any of his detailed statements as referring to something taking 
part in the one world-process; he does not know this process; he 
does not understand its workings because he does not properly 
exercise all his natural knowing powers. 

The niodern theologian misconceives the thoughts and intent 
of the Bible-work, for the reason that he will not make himself 
familiar with the laws of organic language. 

The modern philologist talks learnedly about his guesses 
and conceptions of the meanings of words, but he talks without 
understanding, even in a rudimentary way, the connection be- 
tween language and either the living consciousness or the think- 
ing consciousness. 

The modern logician talks of true and false conclusions of 
thought, but he talks without any understanding whatever of the 
workings of natural cause and consequence; he does not even 
understand the bearings upon life and consciousness of his own 
categorical rhetoric. 

The modern jurist talks authoritatively of right and wrong, 
without any knowledge of either the true or false foundation of 
the written law. 

All this ignorance of scientists, theologians, philologists, 
logicians, jurists and other classes of intellectualized minds, is 
inexcusable and most of it is unnatural. Yet all these intellectual 
perverts and nincompoops undertake to dictate to the actual 
"temple-builders" and workers in the ways of productive indus- 
tries, whose labor supports the millions, what is right and w^ong 
in their own business, and what they must do and must not do; 
and if the workers in productive industries dare to deviate from 
the opinions of the intellectual perverts, laid down as laws, then 
all the swarms of social parasites are called upon to condemn as 
criminals those workers who do the only truly intelligent and 
really honest work in civilization. 

Folly and Greed should be eliminated as much as possible 
from the control of civilization. These two factors in the com- 
pound of the twentieth century mind are the worst enemies of 
our civilization - builders; they demoralize and crush the social 
burden-bearers; they furnish the inspirations to the prevailing 
hollow talk of upbuilding, when, in fact, they stimulate the tear- 
ing-down causes. In order to stop the aggressions of Folly and 
Greed, modern civilization needs more fuU}^ and fairly evolved 
knowing and doing powers than are now to be found in the ranks 
of the educators, legislators, jurists, politicians or diplomats. 

The leaders of modern civilization mean to work in the best 
interests of the masses, as they see these interests by the light of 

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their opinions; but the opinionated Hghts deceive them. They 
cannot bring themselves to do better work than they are now^ 
doing. They have not the means of improving their methods. 
They cannot procure better intellectual lights than those now con- 
tained in opinions. Lacking gisty lights of consciousness, they 
cannot help engaging in the delusive war of words for opinions' 
sake. They cannot really break through the tissue of thought- 
made word-knowledge, so as to enter into the organically living 
consciousness, and see fact in its own true light. In discuss- 
ing alleged facts, they can only talk about their opinions, but they 
cannot verify their opinions nor disprove contrary opinions, for 
they do not know Fact as it is in itself. 

Several thousand years ago, two great epics made their ap- 
pearance in Greek civilization. One known as "The Iliad," de- 
picted the "war of words for opinion's sake", which has ever 
disturbed intellectual and social evolution; and the other, known 
as "The Odyssey", depicted the return to the natural way of 
thinking and speaking' which makes Fact, as it is in itself, know- 
able, and thereby makes possible the formation of gisty judg- 
ments and the return to the rule of right and reason. Our con- 
ventionally enlightened educators, who think they know all about 
these epics, will in all probability deny that there is anything 
like the thought and intent just mentioned in them. They know 
the words in these epics; they know what they think about the 
meanings of these words, but they do not know that antiquity 
employed a very different method of defining words used in epics 
from that now known. Not knowing the methods of definition 
emplo3'ed, our learned educators fail to understand the thought 
and intent embodied in the work. They positively know what 
they think they know, but they only know what they think. They 
know no facts beyond their thinking faculties, and they only know 
those products of the thinking faculties which are manufactured 
in their own mechanical way of thinking. The conventionally 
enlightened or intellectualized mind of this age has no idea that 
the human mind has knowing powers beyond and apart from its 
thinking faculties. It limits itself to its thinking faculties in all 
but the work of applied sciences, in which it makes special facul- 
ties of perception, dealing with special outer aspects of the world- 
process, furnish the raw material of knowing. The intellect 
which cannot understand all the workings of the fundamental 
knowing and doing powers is merely half baked, half developed, 
unfit to tell the truth and unable to do the right thing or cause 
it to be done. 

None-of our educators or intellectual leaders understand the 
workings of the elementary knowing and doing powers. All are 

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therefore unduly limited in natural intelligence and untitled for 
sensible or reasonable leadership. All know their opinions; none 
know facts as they should be known. Their ignorance is un- 
natural; their folly aggressive. Their work in civilization is an 
imposition. 

The right-minded people in civilized life, who aim to rise 
above the mere level of industrial pursuits, should organize to check 
the impositions of Folly, by developing fully and fairly all the ele- 
mentary knowing and doing powers of the human mind after the 
manner of nature in organic ways. Give the world better light 
than opinions, and Reason and Right will rise to rule in civilization 
in a way in which no man will wish to see his fellow suffer, much 
less impose undue suffering upon him, as now do the daemonized 
minds of our foremo.st thinkers. 

If our educators discontinue making systematized lying a 
method of intellectual development and a factor in all intellectual 
endeavors, then all the legal, political, industrial and financial 
system-work, which now hampers and blocks the course of 
national development, will speedily be brought into harmony 
with the organic evolution of society. 

As long as unnatural ignorance and systematized lying- produce 
intellectual perverts in the ways of co-called education, will the 
people have to bear all the burdens which folly and greed can 
impose upon them. 

While the unreasonable war of words for opinions' sake goes 
on, peace cannot come to civilization, nor good-will to individual 
aims and endeavors. 

The war of words for opinions' sake demoralizes the know- 
ing and determining powers of the mind; it undermines the 
foundation of nature's native nobility; it extinguishes the natural 
lights of self-consciousness, native reason and conscience ; it 
destroys the living standards of self-respect; it generates mental 
bias, ill-will and hatefulness; it corrupts the intellectual powers; 
it introduces self-deception and spreads popular delusions, causing 
general demoralization. 

As the basis of unnatural ignorance and the present spreading 
of evil-working opinions appears the scientifically established 
dogma of Relative Truth, now vipheld by all the great educational 
institutions of the land. 

Effective and beneficial is the modern S3^stem of "vocational" 
instruction, bvit the cultural endeavors of our so-called educators 
are an abominable bunch of shams. 

"Vocational" instruction facilitates the construction of some 
required system-work in feeding, clothing and housing the mil- 
lions; but the so-called cultural education, which should elevate 

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the character of the masses above the bread-winning systems, 
being much of a sham at this time in our civilization, rather tends 
to demoralize public character than to upbuild it. 

The words "higher education" suggest much small ambition 
and many great delusions, but nothing whatever connected with 
Fact-knowing, Truth-telling or Right-doing. 

Education which holds to the relativity of all truth makes the 
people believe that the prosperity of one individual in civilized 
life necessarily destroys the prosperity of many other individuals. 
The people, acting under this belief, look upon the trusts as a 
necessary evil. It is true that in non-organic conditions of exis- 
tence, in conditions of war and in conditions of fatal relationship, 
the gain of one man entails the loss of another, but it is not true 
that in livings, organic relationship the gain of one factor in social 
life is effected at the expense of another. If one member of a fam- 
ily gets rich, the other members do not necessarily get poor; they 
get poor only if they live in fatal relationship and if one member 
overreaches the other. 

All life in nature is organic, and it all grows at the expense of 
non-organic, non-vital conditions of existence. Organic life 
brings non-organic substance into organic relationship and ele- 
vates it step by step upward in the ladder of evolution from lower 
to higher stages of organization. The more highly organized 
states of existence naturally live at the expense of the less highly 
organized. The lower organism prepares its substance as nourish- 
ment for the higher. The human organism naturally lives upon 
the animal and vegetable organism, but in the nature of things 
it is not at all necessary that one human organism prey upon an- 
other. On the contrary, men come together with a natural spirit 
of good-will toward each other, to organize family and state, to 
work for each other in accordance with reciprocal principles. As 
long as the good-will prevails, so long is family and social life 
prompted by a healthy stimulus, and so long" is the gain of any 
one member of family and state a benefit to any and all other 
members, b}^ reason of reciprocal interaction. But when the g^ood- 
will which brought men together in famil}^ clan and state, 
gives way to dissention, ill-will and hatefulness, as it does 
when relative truth is the active force in intellectual development, 
then each individual in famih^ and state tries to overreach the 
other or live at the expense of the other. Thus the fabric of organic 
or fatal relationship rests upon natural good-will or educationally 
disseminated ill-will. If education sustains the gregarious nature 
and natural good-will in human nature, then family and state grow 
into social and organic relationship, and then honest truth becomes 
a circulating: mediimi in civilization, and onlv honest standards 



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of truth, virtue, justice and finance can find recognition. But when 
so-called education disseminates relative truth and confines itself 
to statical considerations of life and to depict non-vital, non-or- 
ganic conditions of existence, as does modern learning in school, 
church and literature, then it makes the human mind see only 
dangers of overreaching and of fatal relationship, and thereby 
generates ill-will, with all its fatal consequences upon civilization. 

The virtue of education, then, lies in its ability to make the 
public mind see the organizing causes in nature, thought and civi- 
lization, not from any special point of view, but from a 
self - conscious point which can harmonize and unify all 
human judgments and ■ opinions. To bring education to 
that perfection rec[uires genius. It requires a power of 
mind which can evolve evangelically the elementary knowing and 
doing powers and bring' them into accord or harmony with the 
apostolically developed knowing and doing powers. 

The harmonizing in the development and evolution of the 
inner and outer knowing and doing powers, of inspira- 
tional and of acquired consciousness, would not present 
much difficulty were it not for two facts : first, that 
the alphabetical development serves in one way well and 
in another way badly; and seconly, that the mind con- 
trolled by opinions, as are all modern ftiinds, is never willing to 
have its opinions corrected. To illustrate: Tell the Labor-Union 
man that he can do better in the way of peace than in the way of 
war; that he can better his conditions without striking and throw- 
ing bricks, simply by organizing on the basis of good-will, making 
friends by working for organic relationship of labor and capital 
and making the dollar honestly representative of a day's work, 
and he will probably respond: "Oh! nonsense! I can't gain any- 
thing unless I take it from my neighbor. I must fight capital 
wherever I see it, domestic first; foreign later, if necessary." The 
working man's mind has been developed to understand only the 
fighting basis, and from that basis it judges all facts. So also 
with capital, and so with our educators. The relatively honest 
use of money suits the capitalist ; relative truth pleases the edu- 
cator, who has learned many thousand words contained in dic- 
tionaries, which make so-called historic knowledge the basis of 
definition. He cannot realize that these dictionary definitions are 
of the classifying and categorical kind, which exclude all natural 
knowledge of cause and consequence. He says: "By these defi- 
nitions I make my living and by these definitions I shine. I know 
as much as anybody and I do'nt want to know any more. My 
opinions and theories are all statements of fact, which cannot be 
perfected. Anj^body who finds fault with my opinions and the- 

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ories is visionary." It is this state of mind which Scriptural 
writers termed Satanic, time-defying; because it persists in error; 
it resists the changeful requirements of life. 

No one individual can well hope to overcome the difficulties 
of making honest truth and honest money circulating mediums 
in civilization. The success in this matter which has been ac- 
credited to individuals during the past ages has usually been that 
of a concentrated organic effort to which an individual name has 
been given. 

This is an industrial stage of social development. The greatest 
of industrial achievements has been the formation of trusts. 
Trusts, if formed according to organically reciprocal principles, 
could immensely improve the conditions of the burden-bearers 
in civilization. They could rid national civilization of bureau- 
cratic, political and financial parasites; they could feed, clothe 
and house the world on trul}^ economic principles; they could do 
away with that undue poverty which is the cause of much demora- 
lization; the}' could check the aggressive policy of labor-unions 
and the criminal tendencies in their ranks; they could give 
modern civilization its greatest of all needs, a "sewer-system", 
to eliminate the intellectual, moral and social offal. 

The leaders of industrial development and the heads of the 
trust-system, however, cannot proceed in accordance with organic- 
ally reciprocal principles until these principles are made clear to 
them by ways and means of education. They have to work, as 
has everybody else, financiers, politicians, educators, etc., by the 
lights placed before them, and while these lights are only the lamp- 
lights or torch-lights of opinions, as antic|uity put it, they will not 
be able to accomplish anything in the way of right-doing or of 
evolving good-will in the human mind. 

The modern way of thinking, by means of dictionary terms, 
the way which education prepares and approves as the only way, 
leads the people to believe that there is no truth in life save that 
of word-vested thought, by learning formulated, and that there 
is nothing worth working for save the possession of the "almighty 
dollar"; that deadly competition and strife are essentials to de- 
velop fitness of survival; that the fittest survivor is he who over- 
reaches and overpowers his fellow-men ; that nothing makes life 
worth living but money, and power to impose hardships upon 
humanity. This way of thinking establishes conditions of fatal 
relationship in social lif-e, which generate ill-will and make it im- 
possible for good-will to come to the front and assert itself as 
a civilizing power without having its motives misconstrued and 
disparaged. That which makes life actually worth living is not 

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the possession of the dollar alone, but it is mainly the self-con- 
sciousness of good-will toward men and the enjoyment of appre- 
ciative response from the world to the individual. It is this re- 
sponse which makes giving a greater pleasure than receivings but 
while intellectual endeavor is generating and spreading ill-will at 
large, it forces good-will to stay at home. 

Truth in the way of modern thoug"ht is very unlike truth in 
the way of life. There is much ability to know and to do in the 
human mind which thought, vested in dictionary definitions, can 
never fairly come to represent, even if the learned etymologists 
and philologists make dictionaries by the yard, miles in length. 

If education does not make life shed its own self-conscious 
light into the ways of thinking, thought will lead the human doing 
powers into errors, suffering and destructive strife. Give the pub- 
lic mind true lights of living consciousness, and it will do good 
organic work. It will convert the gregarious nature of man into 
intellectualized good-will. Give the world opinionated lights, as 
does modern learning, and intellectualized individuality will live, 
according- to the class-notions of truth, virtue and justice, in cate- 
gorical pigeon-holes, like weaving spiders, 

"Down through the ages spinning 
The thread of mortal woes." 



The foregoing pages suggest the need of something like a 
"Curia"", or organization of right-minded and characterful people 
to look after national interests from other than a partisan point 
of view, and in a more eft'ectual way than the remnants of a medie- 
val aristocracy succeed in doing under the established monarchial 
forms of government. An adjudicative power, superior to written 
laws and mere opinion, is a necessity in great national develop- 
ment, as well as an approximately standard policy of administra- 
tion, which cannot be disturbed or overthrown by political party- 
pullers. 

The author, having given much time and thought to the un- 
trodden field of original knowing powers, feels convinced that 
the best of human judgment is not necessarily only a matter of 
opinion, based on theories and doctrines, scientific or theological, 
but that a thorough knowledge of natural causes may be evolved 
by employing more efficient ways and means of thought and lan- 
guage than those which develop the modern intellect. He hopes 
to be able to throw some light upon little known facts and especially 
upon the errors and shortcomings in modern learning and methods 
of education, which produce and scatter popular delusions. 

Only a more thorough knowledge of causes active in the pro- 

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cess of living; thinking and civilizing, than the present systems 
of scientific or theological education instil into the public mind, 
can lead to satisfactory results in intellectual endeavors and in the 
exchange of opinions regarding questions of the hour. It is this 
needed knowledge of causes to which the author promises to con- 
tribute much which is not easily accessible to the reading public. 
If his suggestion to organize a patriotic Curia meets with decided 
response anywhere, he will furnish in future publications full ex- 
planations of any and all of the assertions and suggestions con- 
tained in the above pages, and he may perhaps add some exposi- 
tions of fact which never should go into public print, for the rea- 
son that the existing evils and wrongs are rather the products of 
faulty systems than of the men operating under them, and that any 
expositions of fact which must draw attention to the acts of any 
particular individuals may lead to unjust conclusions. He has 
no ambition for individual advancement, and it is solely in the hope 
of improving the conditions in social life that he holds himself in 
readiness to respond to earnest inquiries on the part of organized 
endeavor, but not to mere individual curiosity. He believes that 
individual eiifort can accomplish little or nothing to check the pro- 
gress of erring and wasteful systems. If the above sketchy expo- 
sition of facts does not create more than an occasional individual 
interest, then practical results in the political life of the nation 
cannot be speedily expected from the movement which he expects 
to set on foot, and further elaboration of the subject will have to 
step slowly with the times. 

If the thoughtful people of the United States, especially the 
younger generation, will not organize for the advancement of Light 
and Right, then the healthful middle classes may some early day 
find themselves in the unhappy position of grist placed between 
the upper and nether mill-stones — between the bureaucratic op- 
pressions instigated by foreign financial systems and the grind of 
domestic labor-organizations. 

If the present school, college and journalistic education con- 
tinues to sow the seeds of contradictory opinions and of consequent 
ill-will in the public mind, if party-pulling politicians continue in 
their present irrational course of multiplying special laws to suit 
popular delusions, then we are liable to have Camorra-organiza- 
tions of professional criminals in and out of politics, which may 
make social life decidedly unpleasant and insecure. 

General correspondence may be ad- And correspondence regarding- the 

dressed to " proposed organization to 

"ST. GEORGE" G. H, iVTALTBR, 

Care Paul Elder & Co. Maltermoro, 

Publishers. Fresno County, California. 

San Francisco, California. 

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THE CATEGORIZER 

Aa Ancient Design from Hoernes' Urgeschichte der Kunst 

The design is one of many denoting intellectual perversion, consequent to alpha- 
betical and categorical instruction, which destroys the natural knowing powers of the 
mind and human character. It is not exactly a caricature but rather a character 
study depicting the intellectualized mind as a walking storehouse of ready-made 
ideas, fixed opinions and persistent prejudices. 

The square rump represents the intellectual tool chest and the little squares 
in it denote categorical pigeon holes in the usual way in which so-called sacred art 
of antiquity depicted the subject. The head denotes the intellectualized mind; the 
one eye, the sight of conceptive thought; the beak, the unnatural talking talent; 
the feathers on the head represent the unnatural "lines of thought", that is, visionary 
ideality and perverted intellectuality. The misshapen legs illustrate the stationery, 
unnatural kind of understanding of natural causation, produced by categorical con- 
ceptions of fact; the one arm denotes the one-sided doing power, of intellectuals 
who have been enlightened by single active catgorical thought. The upturned pyra- 
mid under the rump depicts the intellectually perverted thinking powers as propoga- 
tors of opinions. 

The design refers to both methods of abstract thinking, that of syllogizing and 
that of cypselizing, which corrupt natural intelligence. Both methods are still prac; 
ticed in our daily life. Syllogizing is now known as logic. Cypselizing has no modern 
name; it is the purposive way of thinking and of converting ideas into moral determi- 
nents. A further explanation of the picture is given under the chapter on "Logic" .in 

a j'et .unpublished volume. . _ . . .. . ... 

I. 



The old-time arguments for and against the natural way of knowing and the 
acquired categorical way of thinking may be summed up as follows; if supplemented 
to suit modern life; 

First: The deductive and inductive reasoning is not reasoning at all, for it 
is not an intellectual procedure which can deal with the active causes and consequences. 
It Is only a method of preparing categorical ideas in a general or particular way; 
and in fact, it is either reiteration of the premises or it is jumping at conclusions not 
contained in the premises. 

Second; No scientifically established law of nature represents natural causes fairly, 
all are products of irrational guesswork; all are theories which do not elusidate the 
active causes in the process of existence. 

Third: Knowing nature by ideas of matter, power, time, space, motion, is like 
knowing it by God and devil ideas, by ghost and spook ideas; but it is not 
knowing nature as it should be known. Nature should and can be known by the 
very causes of its mobility and motivity; the causes of development and evolution 
are knowable; they rise primarily and immediately in living consciousness and self- 
consciousness and they can be elucidated and made explicitly known by proper 
mental analysis — by proper use of thought and language. If the special powers of 
perception, sight, hearing, touch, etc., are considered the only sources of knowledge, 
then thought can only produce a knowledge of the outer, phaenominal forms, and of 
the inter-action of these forms, and such knowledge is insufficient for the higher pur- 
poses of civilized life. 

Fourth: Learning which looks upon special faculties of perception as the only 
sources of knowledge divests itself of its natural understanding of cause and consequence, 
hence it cannot logically deal with facts. 

Fifth: The Prakrit types of rhetoric can only serve to make Nature known in 
a categorical and historical way; the Sanskrit types can make it known as it is in its 
own inner activity. 

Sixth: Nature should be made explicibly known to civilized life in both the 
natural and acquired way, and both ways should be unified into one compound of 
knowledge and brought under the control of fully evolved free agency determining 
powers. 

Seventh: The very causes of development and evolution in the process of 
nature being knowable, there is no reason why opinions formed without such knowl- 
edge should rule civilized life. Opinions so formed are of unnatural ignorance born, 
and such ignorance should not be permitted to make laws for the guidance of human 
conduct. 

Degenerate and suffering types of civilizations have often struggled against the 
dominance of categorical ideas. Many arguments and thousands of vestiges of works 
of art remain to illustrate the struggle. The everlasting conflict between natural 
fact-knowers and learned word-knowers, between practical minds and theoretical 
minds, between right minded people and systemitizing liars has always resulted in 
Ihe imdoing of natural knowing powers and in the elevation of acquired and artificial 
thinking powers; it has always resulted in the elevation of the letter of opinion-made 
laws above the self-conscious spirit of justice; and this elevation has always des- 
troyed the natural tendencies of good-will and the sense of Justice in Lhc people, and 
\\ith It their oivilijing power. 

In ancient Greece the 'lar between Hennas and lerms resulted in the death 
sentence of Socrates, and yet Plato and Aristotle and other categorizers and sophists 
rose to delude civilization with hollow word-knowledge. 

In ancient Rome the right minded thinkers struggled in vain against the letter- 
of-the-law system which ruined that civilization. 

Cliristiaiiity grew into poVer during Roman degeneracy, but even during the 

II. 



early part of its growth the Neo-platonists and other categorizers came to infest it 
with word-knowledge, bringing fatal confusion of ideas by way of categorical quib- 
bling into the new cult. 

During the middle ages Christianity became so thoroughly deluded by word- 
knowledge that it made saints of such categorizers as Thomas a'Aquinas. 

At present in our civilization the hollow talk of so-called scientists and of intel- 
lectualized politicians again come to the fore to destroy the healthful growth of this 
commonwealth. 

Word-knowers are always wishful to shine as sages. Loud mouthed politicians 
aim to perpetuate themselves in power by ventilating their word-knowledge before a 
deluded gallery whose votes they aim to catcu in support of their side-pulling regime. 

It is always the same kind of deception which destroys the reasoning powers 
of the people and brings ruin to civilization; it is always a substitution of word- 
knowledge for knowledge of natural causation — a substitution of fragmentary one- 
sided and delusive aspects and conceptions of appearance for Facts. 

The mathematic astronomer talks of laws of nature as if he knew all the causes 
active in the siderial process, when, in fact, he does not even know the rudiments 
of what he ought to know, and what pre-historic antiquity knew about the subject. 
The people take in the learned talk and believe the talker is a prodigious fact-knower. 

The intellectualized politician talks of economic subjects as if he knew enough 
to improve the industrial and political systems in all its roofings and branches, but 
all he knows can only disturb the channels of trade and destroy civic rights and 
prosperity of his fellow men; and all he does is to open the way to the public crib 
to an ever increasing number of bureaucratic parasites. He talks of preserving the 
people's rights while he legislates them away, laboring mainly to delude voters and 
to sustain his party regime. 

Trashy education produces trashy opinions and prepares the public mind for 
submission and support of the systematic rule of wrong, which opinionated minds 
always labor to establish for their own glory and aggrandizement and with the result 
of destroying peace and prosperity. So it has been throughout historic ages and so 
it will be again in modern civilization if the business of disseminating irrational 
opinion is not brought to an end. 




GOVERNMENT BY OPINION 

An Etruscan design represents the intellectually deranged will power as govern- 
ing society; it refers to the text in page 74. Many similar designs, some far more 
impressive than the one here produced will be forthcoming presently. 

III. 




THE DOCTRINE Of THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 

From an Etruscan Point of View 

It represents tlie results of the educational dissemination of relative truths, 
namely, the generation of folly, greed, ill-will, envy anrt hatefulness in civilized life. 

The "faunic" genii of fatal relationship are shown as confronting each other and 
as aiming to overreach each other, their nature being demonized and' brutalized by 
unnatural ignorance of the organizing powers in life, ignorance produced in the un- 
natural way of thinking. 

Trashy education so deludes the public mind that it cannot see any way of 
prosperity except by overreaching fellow constituents in family and State. 




GOVERNMENT BY HOLLOW TALK OF POLITICAL PERVERTS 



The Talking Lions of Fatal Relationship from ancient Eturia, held in check by 
the deep-seated power of intellectual persersion which governs the land. 

The central figure is notaMiedusa, as archeologists usually call it. It personifies 
an earlier type of systematic perversion of mentality produced by undesplained talk- 
ing talent. (Note the protruding tongue.) 

Medusa personifies the confusion of ideas consequent to the failure of distin- 
guishing natural "Lines of Thought" from "Artificial Lines of Learning." 

IV.' 






THE WAR OF WORDS FOR OPINION'S SAKE 

The Talking Lions of Fatal Relationship from an Assyrian monument represent 
the government by side-pulling party talk which proceeds without free agency power 
or any other adjudicative and organizing power of central unification and determina- 
tion This design, like many others, is but fragments of a great educational system. 
The entire system must be explained before the details can be made properly intelli- 
gible. Further explanation of it will be found in the stories of Izdubar in the "God 
Sham of Antiquity" about to be published. 




PROMPTED BY FOLLY AND GREED 



LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL SPOLIATION 

Legislative spoliation is not a new feature in civilization. Systematizing thought 
which ignores the organizing principles has often usurped the law making power and 
proceeded aggressively in special and counteractive ways against the best interests of 
the people. .^ .,^4^ 

The Sherman law is by no means a novelty in the aggressive use of legislative 
and political power. This use is here as often elsewhere represented by the Fatal 
Relationship-lions besetting civilization which appears represented by a single indi- 
vidual. The mythical lion of Fatal Relationship appears as playing a widely varying 
part in the incongraphy of ancient cults; but never a happy one. 

The aggressive use of political and legislative power affects the entire civiliza- 
tion even if only directed against one faction or even one single individual at a time. 
Civilization hangs together nationally no matter how badly or primitively organized. 
Aggressive legislation which today attacts only the capitalist whose money is invested 
in industrial enterprises also attacks the iijterests of the labor employed, a fact which 
the labor unions will some day realize when their fighting and striking methods come 
to be turned against other than individual and domestic capital. 

V. 



Any nation which iDermits its political and legislative functionaries to depart 
from scriptually formulative restrictive principles so far as to pursue an aggressive 
policy will learn that the wage of folly is suffering. : 

The worst enemies of civilization are aggressions of legislatvie and political 
functionaries. They proceed under the claim of most exalted, if not divine, right to 
impose hardship upon the people whom they should serve and whose endorsement they 
secure by systematized lying and ~by otherwise scattering popular delusions. 

This method of securing the consent of the people to parasite invasion and 
organic destruction Is old and time accursed. 

The powers of life which cause the organic growth of national civilization have 
always given way to parasite invasion and destruction in historic times. Nature builds 
and artifice kills the social body ' organc. The living civilizations have become so 
used to parasitic invasion and control that they seem to consder national infestment 
a natural state of affairs. When Free Agency Knowledge Power and Character are 
lacking, as they always have been in historic civilization, the social constituents find 
some kind of slavery quite acceptible. 

To make life worth living, good-will must sustain the knowing and doing 
powers. Good-will should be educationally cultivated and industrially and politically 
sustained by establishment of fair social conditions. 

Individual and public welfare is the result of united efforts in organizing endea- 
vor and not of counter-active' struggle. 

Peace and Prosperity are secured by harmonious special endeavors in accordance 
with organizing principles and these principles imply reciprocal interaction, not only 
between individual workers and organized enterprises but also between these enter- 
prises and the commonwealth inclusive of the governing powers. All have some right 
to share in the benefits of natural growths. 

Equitable distribution of right and duties is the bases of internal peace. No 
government has any right to legislate away the individual freedom of conduct as iong 
as this conduct is not dangerous or harmful to other individuals or to the State at 
large, and being so harmful or dangerous should not be a matter of any body's opinion; 
it should be the matter of Fast and of gisty judgment regarding Fact — regarding con- 
ditions and the causes productive of conditions. 

The organizing causes active in life, mind and society, the causes which sus- 
tain individual and social welfare and organic relationship being knowable, no opinion 
formed without knowledge of these causes has a right to officiate as a life controlling 
power in civilization. 

The letter of the law must not be based upon anybody's opinion but upon gisty 
knowledge of Fact, and it should, not be administered, save by a characterful free 
agent, who can distinguish between Facts which are acts of nautre, pure and simple, 
and theories or opinions regarding facts which are only pretentious products of the 
way of thinking. 

The modern mind, intellectually enlightened, has lost much of its natural powers 
to distinguish between acts of life and acts of thought — between Facts which are 
acts of nature or of human nature and between facts which are only theories and 
opinions. . 

The mental powers to make this distinction are in part ignored by modern edu- 
cation. The natural knowing powers are left undeveloped by thought and language 
as used in school, church and even social life and no living criterion of certitude is 
being fully evolved and hence no free agency power. 

Modern learning recognizes no criterion of truth which is not purely a product in 
the conventional way of thinking, and hence the public mind is left not only without 
intrinsic and explicit knowledge of Fact but also without any living self-conscious 
criterion of certitude. 

VI. 



The assertion that the trust system is harmful to civilization is a theory as for- 
merly was the assertion that the introduction of machinery was dangerous and harm- 
ful — sewing machines would diminish the chances of women to find employment, etc., 
etc. 

Trusts can never be dangerous or harmful if organic principles prevail. Every 
great movement in civilization is dangerous if not actively harmful when the organizing 
principles do not prevail. The formation of every State within the State is dangerous. 
For instance, labor unions are dangerous; they go on strikes; they interfere Wi a 
trade; they throw bricks, etc., yet if these labor unions should become embodied in 
the trust system on reciprocal principles and on profit-sharing basis with the State 
they would necessarily become a peaceful organization and great benefit to civiliza- 
tion. The growth of the bureaucratic system is not only a danger but certainly harm- 
ful to national welfare, if the political office men and public servants usurp controling 
power of industrial enterprises and of feeding the millions; but if organizing princi- 
ples prevail to hold political flunkies in their place, then their work is an essential 
factor in public business. 

The problem of States within the State is very largely illuciated in old-time works 
of thought and especially vestiges sacerdotal art. 

The practice of basing lows upon theories and enforcing them rigorously is al- 
ways harmful, in fact, is pernicious. 

The theorists and word-knowers should be forced out of the law-making business 
and the swarms of bureaucratic parasites should be made to earn an honest living. 
Common sense and Native Reason should assert themselves and lay intellectualized 
ignorance on the shelf. 

It is absurd to send a man to the penitentiary because he violates a law based 
on a theory — on an opinion-made law. 

The present law craze in this country shows the lack of proper mental training 
in the public mind. The Sherman law and its application is an evidence of deplorable 
incompetency in congressional and judicial talent. 

Incompetency in educational endeavors underlies the incompetency in legislative, 
political and administrative work. No modern educator knows the difference between 
fact and theories as thoroughly as it should be known to every voter in a republican 
form of government. 

In order to distinguish facts from theory clearly in all cases the thinking mind 
must be able to make an analysis of its own consciousness; at least, it must be able 
to distinguish the living consciousness from the thinking consciousness — the workings 
of common sense, native reason and self-consciousness from the word-vested ideas 
which pretend to represent them — natural intelligence from acquired intellectuality — 
gisty judgments from opinions, etc., etc. 

Modern learning does not and probably cannot analyze the compound of conscious- 
ness in accordance with its constituent factors; and because it does not do this it 
remains unnaturally ignorant of Fact. 

Our learned thinkers all know the words common sense, native reason, special 
sense^ discerning and determining power, self-consciousness, etc., but they do not know 
wlial these words can and do I'epresent in the workings of mental economy if pi-o- 
perly defined. They do not know the proper way of defining words, they only know 
ilie historical and categorical way which is found in modern dictionaries, from the 
rie^ Os;ford edition down to the sclic".'! dlc^-ioii^ries. All the definitions contained 'li 
dictionaries are of the tsrrMelogical and categorical hind; ths? are definitions based 
or. historic observatians concerning s-jperficial aspects of ssijerience only; all are 
products of artificial classification; none reach effectively into living consciousness. 

Modern educators are to blame for the intellectual perversion of the age, for 
the prevailing errors of thought, for the spread of popular delusion, for legislative and 
judicial incompetency, and social disturbances. 

VII. 



Modern civilization stiould be given open "sewerage" for tlie purpose of ridding 
society of the intellectual perverts and their victims. It is absurd to legislate obstruc- 
tions into the undercurrents of degeneracy. The redemption of invincible ignorance 
is impossble; all attempts to elevate irredeemable degenerates are vain. To foster 
degeneracy is hurtful; to give it authority and power to rule civilized life is perni- 
cious. 

To expound these assertions in detail by means of words is tiresome and unnec- 
essary. Antiquity has done all necessary work on this subject thoroughly. The 
resurrection of the original meanings of the vestiges of ancient art, the world's great 
educator, can do more in a day than talk in dictionary terms can do in centuries. Let 
us resurrect the work which evolved the civilizing instinct and free agency powers in 
humanity. Organize society on organizing principles, regenerate good-will and make 
thinking man a free agent, and nine-tenths of restrictive legislation will become useless 
and the aggressive legislators will naturally go into the sewer. 

The merging of labor unions and trusts into one properly constituted organiza- 
tion will solve the economic problem and prove beneficial to everp helpful constituent 
of society. It will establish economic peace in the social household. 

The organization of a "curia" for the correction of educational errors and short- 
comings and supervision of social affairs will put an end to political and legislative 
corruption and a thousand other evils which are now growing wild. 



VIII. 



ERRATA 

Page 2. 9th line read; stuffed specimens of an animal. 

Page 3. Paragraph left out, 6 lines from top. See end of 
errata. 

Page 8. 16th line from top. The sentence: "'Having served 
their purpose they do not pass out of existence but" should be 
struck out and the following sentence should be substituted : They 
are tools of the mind and they should never be looked upon as 
anything' else. They should be filed away in the categorical tool- 
chest, but usually they are looked upon as standard representa- 
tions of Fast, and thereby they 

Page 9. 10th line from top after Fact read: it is guess work 

Page 25. Top line after organization: Instead of "the)'" 
read : most of them. 

Page 29. 24th line from top. After credit system read: in 
former ages had. 

Page 31. 18th line from top: Substitute should for do. 

Page 33. 11th line from top: Substitute originates for 
exists. 

Page 38. 14th line from bottom. Title left out : Language 
as a Cause of Evolution — The Gift of Tongues. 

Page 40. 5th line from bottom. Title left out : Language 
as a Cause of Delusion — -The Confusion of Tongues. 

Page 4 of illustrations read: for political perverts, read intel- 
lectual perverts. 

Page 5, supplement title lines to read : The AVar of AVords for 
Opinion's Sake and Its Influence on Civilized Societv. 

Page 5.. Transpose title lines to read: Legislative and Politi- 
cal Spoliation, prompted by Folly and Greed. 

The omitted paragraph on page 3. 

Antiquity evolved two different types of language ; one for . 
the evolution of the human understanding and the other for the 
special thinking powers. The former was a truly organic type of 
language ; the latter a gramatical type. If both types are not 
used to develop the human knowing powers, then intellectual 
development besomes one sided and exerts a delusive influence 
upon civilized life ; it deceives the thinking mind as regards that 
which is right and wrong in public life. 

All historic civilizations have been subjected to the one-sided 
influence of language and by reason of this influence they have 
been brought to untimely destruction. 

Only organic language can serve to evolve the powers of the 
human understanding and produce a gisty knowledge of natural 
causation. Grammatical types of language can onl}^ develop 
special faculties of knowing; they can serve onlv to represent 

(a ) 



and misrepresent natural causation by fragmentary conceptions, 
superficial ideas and opinions. Organic language is needed to 
evolve free agency powers qualified to use ideas or opinions as 
intellectual tools wherewith to do their work of civilization. 

The every-day languages spoken in the civilized world are 
a mixture of organic and grammatical types of language, but in 
that mixture there is but a very small percentage of organic char- 
acter, and this small percentage is being steadily diminished by 
S3'stems of instructions in logic and rhetoric and categorical classifi- 
cation and manufacture of dictionary terms. Under our instruc- 
tive system special knowledge increases but the natural under- 
standing of cause and consequence vanishes. 

Our educators do not understand the two ways in which 
everyday language may and should be used; the Sancrit or 
mental health-sustaining way and the Pankrit or categorically 
explicit way. 

The words Sankcrit and Prakrit are not here used to indicate 
the language of ancient India; they are only used because they 
are pointedly and tersely discriptive of the two ways in which 
the human mind can use language, and our dictionaries have no 
words to pointedly depict the two difl^erent ways of speaking. 

The Sankcrit way is the so-called sacred or health-sustaining 
use of language which evolve the living consciousness of natural 
causation — the natural understanding — the mother conscious- 
ness of the thinking consciousness; it gives the mind a healthful 
foundation to insure the right and reasonable use of acquired and 
explicit knowledge; it opens up the unlimited knowledge of the 
world process. 

The Prakrit way is the definite, but limited, historic use of 
language which evolves the special faculties of the thinking con- 
sciousness and makes that known which takes place in the work- 
shop of single active thought and which is or can be embodied or 
encased in the established definitions of the words used. 

The former use of language deals with that which is univer- 
sally and individually active in the very process of existence and . 
which because of its changeful activity cannot be embodied or 
encased in established or fixed definitions of words; and at that 
activity it only hints by making" an impression upon living con- 
sciousness, as do all glyphic or hermenentic types of language. 

The latter everyday Prakrit use of language deals with pro- 
ducts of thought which are actually contained in the meaning of 
words. 

To illustrate the two ways of using" language: the name 
Jupiter in the so-called sacred use of language originally meant. 
Father of Adjudicative Reason because this way of reasoning is 
an organizing power of life and mind which actually exists in the 
process of life back of language and which extends the principles 
of procedure, creative of organic life in nature, into the endeavors 
of social organization and civilization. This name so used is onl)^ 
a hint at something beyond itself; it is an eponym for it hints at 

(b) 



something which actually works at the process of existence and 
its use produces a healthful effect upon the mind in as much as 
it appeals to a living and active character power and draws the 
attention of thoug'ht to the why and wherefore life proceeds as 
it does in its way of intellectual and social evolution. 

The name Jupiter thus represents an organizing power pro- 
ceeding intellectually in accordance with creative and health-sus- 
taining principles of life ; and not a mere statistical idea of a 
stationary God. In its original significance it referred to a char- 
acterful Doing-power and not to any special thinking or talking 
talent; it was a character name generated according to the pro- 
sopapaia-system of mythically personifying in powers active 
in nature and human nature ; and it orig'inally belonged in the 
sacred or Sankcrit- way of using language. Of course, it is not 
a Brahmanic but a Latin name. 

Quite different is the case of the word "Deus"; it has a fixed 
stationary categorical meaning as has our word God ; it repre- 
sents a word-born, (mythically called an ear-born) idea in this 
or that definition encased ; and it does not in any immediately 
kown way refer to the living organizing- power in the process of 
nature. It signifies and represents only some product of thought 
or some absentee God-idea, some intellecutal vision. 

The absentee God-ideas only hold out delusive hopes and 
delusive fears to superstitious folly, which never can or should 
control civilization . 

The free agency mind should know how the Gods or deified 
powers of life and mind proceed in order to proceed accordingly. 

Ignorance of the two-old use of language and of the proso- 
papaia system substituted the hollow term "Deus" for the char- 
acter name of Jupiter or a definite categorcial idea for the indefi- 
nitely descriptive name of a personified and actually living power. 

Absentee God-ideas do not properly depict the powers which 
create life and do the civilizing work. That which does the civi- 
lizing work is that power of life or mind which both intellectually 
and practically proceeds in accordance with those organizing prin- 
ciples which create and sustain the order of life; and that power 
is active in man, if he is actually a free agent and not onlj^ a vision- 
ary thinker or victim of thought-born delusions. The human 
judging and reasoning, the free agency discerning and doing 
powers animated and inspired by the living principles of creation 
built up civilization and not absentee God-ideas nor theories or 
opinions regarding them; they only delude the God-conscious- 
ness of the humari mind and tear down its living work. 

In the original of our bible-work, the organizing principles of 
precedure are not called God, nor Jehovah, but the}' are given char- 
acter-names and when fully evolved in the free agency mind they 
are represented by the letters J. H. V. H. 

The word wise but unnaturally ignorant translators substi- 
tuted the word God for any and all of the character names and 
designations which appeared in the original text, even for the 

(c) 



letters J. H. V. H. This substitution of terms for character names 
destroys the original meaning of the sacred writings or other 
healthful products of thought and makes profane history of 
foolish fairy tales out of the original formulas designed for the 
p-uidance of common sense, native reason, thought and other 
mental constituents of the free agency doing-power. The modern 
word-knower may know all about the meaning of these words 
according to the definitions given in dictionaries, but he does not 
know what is back of these definitions in living powers; nor does 
he know that the words may be so used as to reach beyond the 
definitions into the living" powers; he does not know common 
sense, Native Reason or other Free Ag'ency powers as they are 
in themselves , nor what they are capable of doing in the mental 
economy and in the civilizing process. The intellectualized word- 
knowers cannot look through the verbal vail into the process of 
nature; this vail is impenetrable to them; their natural intelli- 
gence having been destroyed by wordy perversion of the intellect, 
they cannot see that the best use of language is only a hint at 
existing facts. The alphabetically intellectualized mind, which 
ignores the glyphic use of language cannot see or understand the 
actual workings of the powers of life or the very causes which 
create and sustain or disturb and destroy the order of life in indivi- 
dual and nation, and hence it cannot reason from cause to conse- 
quence, nor determine the Good or Evil in the influence of thought 
and language upon civilization. 

And again the thinker enlightened by dictionar}' words can 
only know that part of living consciousness which has been ana- 
lized by thought and converted into explicit word knowledge ; 
and that part, at the present stage of mental developement, is but 
a small fraction of that which is implicitly given in original know- 
ing powers. 

Dictionary definitions refer only to the work of single active 
thought, and they can never fully and fairly represent the double 
activity of natural causation. The intellect by dictionary words 
developed is never more than half developed, it remains half-en- 
lightened — "half-baked" — half-witted ; it never can come to 
distinguish Right from Wrongs, Good from Evil; it must always 
remain an inorganic thing, a conglomerate of opinion. All these 
facts here hinted at, or for the sake of brevity rather dogmatically 
stated, should have been fully elaborated and made known to 
leaders of civilized life and to voters in a republic, so that they 
may not allow themselves to be deceived and misled by the word 
wisdom of "half-baked" intellectuals. 

The mythical phrase "half-baked" refers to ideas not properly 
prepared as healthful food for the mind. 

Language deceives the judging and reasoning powers if it is 
not properly used. 

Improper use of language converts the "gift of tongues" which 
makes civilization possible into the "confusion of tongues" which 
destroys civilization. 

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